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Who proposed the Continetal Drift Theory?
a) Wegener
b) Hess
c) Newton
d) Bohr

What is the driving force that moves the plates?
a) Magnetic pull of the poles.
b) Sun's radiant energy
c) Convection Currents
d) Tsunami

What type of plate boundary causes a mid ocean ridge?
a) Transform
b) Convergent with continental crust colliding with continental crust
c) Convergent with oceanic crust colliding with continental
d) Divergent

What type of plate boundary creates folded mountains?
a) Transform
b) Convergent with continental crust colliding with continental crust
c) Convergent with oceanic crust colliding with continental crust
d) Divergent

What type of plate boundary created the San Andreas Fault?
a) Transform
b) Convergent with continental crust colliding with continental crust
c) Convergent with oceanic crust colliding with continental crust
d) Divergent

What type of plate boundary creates volcanic mountains at edge of a continent?
a) Transform
b) Convergent with continental crust colliding with continental crust
c) Convergent with oceanic crust colliding with continental crust
d) Divergent

Where is the crust of the Earth destroyed?
a) No where, the Earth does not change
b) Mid ocean ridge
c) Rift Valley
d) Subduction zone

Where is new crust made on the Earth?
a) No where, the Earth does not change
b) Mid ocean ridge
c) Volcanic Island Arc
d) Subduction zone

What was the name of the supercontinent proposed by Wegener?
a) Pangaea
b) Gondwandaland
c) Laurasia
d) Euroasia

What type of plate boundary creates earthquakes?
a) Transform
b) Convergent
c) Divergent
d) All of them

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