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What makes up earth's outer layer?
a) Soft solid rock
b) Hard solid rock
c) Dirt
d) Lava

What happens when two plates drift apart?
a) A combination of sand, dirt and ocean water falls through the gap creating a sink hole
b) Soft solid rock from the mantle rises and hardens adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates
c) One plate goes under the other and forms a long deep hole called a trench
d) An ocean forms

What does it mean if a plate boundary is divergent?
a) The plates are moving side by side
b) The plates are moving toward each other
c) The plates are drifting apart from each other
d) The plates are not moving

What type of boundary does a trench form at?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Subvergent
d) Crossvergent

What does it mean if a plate boundary is convergent?
a) The plates are not moving
b) The plates drift apart from each other
c) The plates move towards each other
d) The plates are moving side by side

What type of boundary does a ridge form at?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Subvergent
d) Crossverse

How does a trench form?
a) Two plates drift apart and soft solid rock from the mantle rises up where it cools and hardens
b) Two plates collide and one sinks down into the mantle
c) After plates collide one plate cracks leaving a hole in its place
d) Two plates drift apart leaving a hole in the middle where they once connected

Fossils of the same species were found on different continents with an ocean between. How is this possible?
a) The continents drifted apart suddenly
b) The continents drifted apart slowly over time
c) The animals swam across the ocean millions of years ago
d) The animals built airplanes and flew from one continent to the other

What is a cross section?
a) A picture showing what is under the earth's crust
b) A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
c) A map showing where plate boundaries are
d) A map showing where earthquakes and volcanoes happen

Where do earthquakes happen?
a) Plate Boundaries
b) California
c) Random locations
d) The ocean

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