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1) What is the hypothesis that states that continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.

Asea-floor spreading Bplate tectonics CPangea Dcontinental drift

2) What are underwater mountain chains that run through EarthвЂ™s ocean basins.

Amid-ocean ridges Bplate tectonics Csandbars Dvolcanoes

3) Which does not provide evidence of continental drift?

Asimilar fossils Bphotographs Cshapes of continents Dsimilar rocks

4) Who is the scientist that wrote the hypothesis of continental drift?

ABill Nye BHoward Hess CBill Gates DAlfred Wegener

5) The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface.

Asea-floor spreading Bsubduction Cthermal heating Dcontinental drift

6) Sea-floor spreading takes place here.

APangaea Bthe magnetic poles Cthe outer core Dthe mid-ocean ridges

7) When the Earth's magnetic poles change places, it is called this.

Acontinental drift Bmagnetic reversal Cmid-ocean ridge Dseismic wave

8) Which of the following provides evidence of sea-floor spreading?

Acontinetal drift Bseismographs Csubduction Dmagnetic reversal

9) What were the two huge continents formed 180 million years ago?

APangaea and Panthalassa BNorth and South America CEurasia and Gondwana DLauraia and Gondwana

10) Which statement is not true?

AYounger crust is found farther away from mid-ocean ridges than older crust. BPlant fossils found in Antartica support Wegener's hypothesis. CThe record of magnetic reversals was the final proof that sea-floor spreading does occur. DPanthalassa was the sea that surrounded Pangaea.

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