Unit 5 Test Review: Dynamic Crust
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- Q1All of the following support that continents were once joined and have separated over millions of years exceptmatching coastlinesmatching fossilsmatching rock typesmatching earthquakes30s
- Q2The supercontinent that broke and drifted apart into the seven continents known today is calledParisPotsdamPangaeaPagoda30s
- Q3Earthquakes are most often caused byerosion from heavy rains.volcanic eruptions.movements of the Earth's crust.drilling for oil in the sea floor.30s
- Q4As you get farther away from a mid-ocean ridge, the rocks getmore denseyoungerless maficolder30s
- Q5All of the following all are evidence that the crust of the Earth moves exceptfaulted stratahorizontal stratatilted stratafolded strata30s
- Q6Marine fossils found in rocks at high elevations is evidence forvolcanoescrustal uplifthurricanestsunamis30s
- Q7Which layer of the earth is thickest?outer corecrustmantleinner core30s
- Q8As you move deeper into the earth interior, the layer becomethinnercoolermore denseless dense30s
- Q9Compared to the oceanic crust, the continental crust isthicker and less densethicker and more densethinner and less densethinner and more dense30s
- Q10Who proposed the theory of continental drift?Isaac NewtonAxl RoseAlfred WegenerAlbert Einstein30s
- Q11All of the following are features of the ocean floor exceptseamountseskersabyssal plainstrenches30s
- Q12Alternating bands of normal and reversed magnetic polarity are found in the basaltic rock on either side of atrenchhot spottransform faultmid-ocean ridge30s
- Q13On what layer of the Earth's interior do the lithospheric plates "float" on?inner corelithosphereasthenophereouter core30s
- Q14In what direction do plates move at a transform plate boundary?slide past eachothermove away from each otherone moves up and other moves downmove toward each other30s
- Q15What type of plate boundary exists at the Aleutian Trench?divergentstrike-slipconvergenttransform30s