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At a transform boundary tectonic plates are...
a) Sliding past one another
b) Coming together
c) Drifting apart
d) Are being pulled apart

Sea-floor spreading takes place at...
a) Mid-ocean ridges
b) Convergent boundaries
c) Transform boundaries
d) Volcanic island arcs

They hypothesis that the continents were once together in a large landmass and drifted apart to their current location is known as...
a) Continental Drift
b) Plate tectonics
c) Sea-floor spreading
d) Seismology

A huge land mass that existed about 245 million years ago.
a) Pangaea
b) Laurasia
c) Eurasia
d) Continental drift

What will happen when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
a) The denser oceanic plate will subduct under the less dense continental plate
b) The denser continental plate will subduct under the less dense oceanic plate
c) The two plates will converge making mountains
d) The less dense oceanic plate will subduct under the more dense continental plate

Which of the following is most responsible for the formation of new crust at the edge of a tectonic plate?
a) Magma rising up from the mantle at a divergent boundary
b) Mountain building at a continent-continent convergent boundary
c) Two tectonic plates sliding past each other at a transform boundary
d) Subduction of one oceanic plate under another at a convergent boundary

A rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d) Uniform

Which feature would most likely be forming at converging continental tectonic plate boundaries?
a) Uplifted mountain
b) Rift valley
c) Volcanic cone
d) Deep trench

Which of the following is the best evidence that Earth's continents were once in very different positions than they are today?
a) Fossils of tropical plants are found in Antarctica
b) Penguins are found only in the Southern Hemisphere
c) Volcanoes encircle the Pacific Ocean
d) Major rivers form deltas from continental erosion

Which landform would most likely be created when two oceanic plates converge?
a) A volcanic island arc
b) A huge watershed area
c) A smooth continental shelf
d) A chain of continental mountains

The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are typically located near what feature?
a) Mid-ocean ridge
b) A subduction trench
c) An abyssal plain
d) A continental shelf

If you were standing at the very middle of a convergent continental plate boundary where would you be standing?
a) On a mountain
b) In the ocean
c) In a rift valley
d) On a volcano

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