Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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What is Pangea?
a. | one of the Earth’s tectonic plates | c. | another name for
Antarctica | b. | a super-continent that existed over 200 million years
ago |
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What is plate tectonics?
a. | a theory about the movement of the continents | c. | a new way to wash
dishes | b. | a theory about the origin of Earth |
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What kind of plates are involved in the plate tectonics theory?
a. | thck slabs of snow that accumulate on mountains | c. | small pieces of ocean crust that do
not move | b. | thick, shifting slabs of the Earth’s crust |
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How much does the average continent move each year?
a. | several hundred kilometers | c. | several
centimeters | b. | a few hundred meters |
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Which type of plate boundary involves two plates moving TOWARD one
another?
a. | divergent boundary | c. | convergent boundary | b. | transform
boundary |
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Which type of boundary involves two plates moving away from each other?
a. | divergent boundary | c. | convergent boundary | b. | transform
boundary |
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Which type of plate boundary involves two plates sliding alongside each
other?
a. | convergent boundary | c. | transform boundary | b. | divergent
boundary |
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What process can explain why we see fossils of the same prehistoric animals on
different continents?
a. | hotspot formation | c. | continental drift | b. | continental
evolution |
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What is another major piece of evidence that supports the theory of plate
tectonics?
a. | South America and Africa seem to fit together like a puzzle | c. | there is no
evidence, plate tectonics is just a theory | b. | you can feel the continents move under your
feet |
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What can be found directly under the plates of the Earth’s crust?
a. | mostly water | c. | mostly granite | b. | a soft mantle (the
asthenosphere) |
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