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Plate Tectonics, Convection, Rocks, Fossils. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

The process of heat rising and cool air sinking is _____________.
a) Convection
b) Convergent
c) Divergent
d) Gravity

What three forces drive plate movement?
a) Gravity
b) Pressure
c) Convection
d) All of these answers

What is the theory called that explains HOW the plates move in response to seafloor spreading?
a) Plate Tectonics
b) Pangea
c) Alfred Wegener
d) Convergent

What was the believed supercontinent called that Alfred Wegener developed?
a) Pangea
b) Convection
c) Plate Tectonics
d) Fossils

Which type of rock is formed by cooled/hardened magma?
a) Igneous
b) Sedimentary
c) Metamorphic
d) None

Which type of rock is formed by a change such as extreme heat, or chemical reaction?
a) Igeous
b) Sedimentary
c) Metamorphic
d) None

What type of rock are fossils mostly found in?
a) Old rocks
b) Igneous
c) Sedimentary
d) Metamorphic

What evidence did Alfred Wegener have in support of his theory of Pangea?
a) Fossil, Geometric, climate and mountain ranges
b) Fossil, rocks, climate and mountain ranges
c) Fossil, Geometric, climate and seafloor spreading
d) memory, Geometric, climate and mountain ranges

What is the process of new crust being formed at a mid-ocean ridge and pushes out the old crust?
a) Convection
b) Seafloor spreading
c) Convergent
d) Divergent

What type of boundary is two plates colliding?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d) Convection

What type of boundary is two plates pulling apart?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d) Convection

What type of boundary is two plates sliding past one another?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d) Covection

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