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All of the following support that continents were once joined and have separated over millions of years except
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matching coastlines
matching fossils
matching rock types
matching earthquakes
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The supercontinent that broke and drifted apart into the seven continents known today is called
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All of the following support that continents were once joined and have separated over millions of years except
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The supercontinent that broke and drifted apart into the seven continents known today is called
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Earthquakes are most often caused by
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As you get farther away from a mid-ocean ridge, the rocks get
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All of the following all are evidence that the crust of the Earth moves except
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Marine fossils found in rocks at high elevations is evidence for
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Which layer of the earth is thickest?
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As you move deeper into the earth interior, the layer become
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Compared to the oceanic crust, the continental crust is
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Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
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All of the following are features of the ocean floor except
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Alternating bands of normal and reversed magnetic polarity are found in the basaltic rock on either side of a
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On what layer of the Earth's interior do the lithospheric plates "float" on?
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In what direction do plates move at a transform plate boundary?
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What type of plate boundary exists at the Aleutian Trench?
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Which mountains are currently forming where the Indian-Australian Plate is colliding with the Eurasian Plate?
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What is the driving force beneath plate tectonics?
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All of the following are types of faults except
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The point directly below the epicenter of an earthquake is called the
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Compared to P-waves, S-waves
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An instrument that measures and records earthquake waves are called
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What is the difference in arrival times for this seismic station reading?
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How far away is this seismic station from the earthquake epicenter?
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How long did it take the P-wave to arrive at this seismic station?
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How many seismic stations are needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake?
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Scientists have inferred the interior of the Earth from the
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What is the approximate density of the outer core?
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What is the approximate temperature at the boundary between the mantle and outer core?
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What is the approximate depth to the inner core?
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Areas on earth that do not receive earthquake waves because they are either refracted or absorbed are known as
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A scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake by assigning a number from 1 to 10 is called the
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Using the Mercalli Scale, what Roman numeral would you assign to an earthquake that causes windows and fragile objects to be broken, but NOT masonry to break?
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An earthquake that originates 300 to 700 km below the Earth's surface is called a
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An earthquake occurs on the sea bottom. Approximately how fast will the resulting tsunami move toward the coastline?
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Volcanic islands form in a line as the plate they ride on moves. These plates move in the direction
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All of the following are types of volcanoes except
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This forms when magma squeezes into horizontal cracks in the surrounding rocks.