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What is the name of the plate where Australia is found?
a) Pacific
b) North American
c) Indo-Australian
d) African

What is the name of the plate you live on?
a) North American
b) South American
c) Texas
d) Eurasian

Where would you need to fly to land on the Eurasian plate?
a) South America
b) Europe
c) India
d) Egypt

Which model describes the way mountains are formed?
a) sand piling up in a sand box
b) a baking soda/vinegar reaction
c) hard candy dissolving in your mouth
d) When two cars run into each other

Where can most volcanoes be found?
a) Along plate boundaries
b) in the middle of a tectonic plate
c) In the ocean
d) On a continent

When two plates rub next to each other and suddenly release that causes...
a) Tornadoes
b) Volcanoes
c) Earthquakes
d) Hurricanes

Why is baking soda/vinegar NOT a good model for volcanoes
a) It does not include details of why an eruption happens
b) volcanoes are too random to model
c) It is small enough to show the formation of lava
d) Studying volcanoes at all is too unsafe.

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
a) Thomas Edison
b) Alfred Wegner
c) Mrs. McDaniel
d) Sigmund Freud

Divergent plates make...
a) Mountains
b) Volcanoes
c) Earthquakes
d) Ocean Basins

Why do the plates move?
a) The rotation of the Earth
b) Convection currents in the asthenosphere
c) The wind pushes them
d) The ocean tides push them along

Convergent boundaries cause...
a) Volcanoes
b) Earthquakes
c) Mountains
d) Ocean Basins/Sea floor spreading

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