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Which theory suggests Pangea existed but then all SEPARATED?
a) Law of Superposition
b) Theory of Continental Drift
c) Law of Gravity
d) Theory of Plate Tectonics

When sea-floor spreading occurs at the Mid-Atlantic ridge it creates what?
a) Earthquake
b) Volcano
c) Animals to lose their home
d) A New Crust

The size and intensity of an earthquake is called
a) Seismic waves
b) Magnitude
c) Focus
d) Epicenter

What types of organisms existed in the Mesozoic era
a) Fish, marine life
b) Dinosaurs, reptiles
c) Multicellular organisms
d)

What type of organisms exist in the Cenozoic era?
a) Fish, marine life
b) Dinosaurs, reptiles
c) Humans, horses
d) Trilobites

How are igneous rocks formed?
a) Heat and pressure
b) Weathering, erosion, compaction
c) Cooled magma
d)

Where do earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
a) Where magma is
b) They both occur where there are tectonic plates
c) Earthquakes happen near tectonic plates, volcanoes near magma
d)

When magma breaks into Earth's surface it is called ?
a) Fault
b) Intrusion
c) Extrusion
d) Crack

What plate boundary is a place where plate tectonics slide past each other?
a) Convergent
b) Transform
c) Divergent
d) Subduction

Which group of organisms is from the PreCambrian Era?
a) Humans, birds
b) Dinosaurs, birds
c) Sharks, insects
d) Bacteria, multicellular organisms

Rocks made of compacted sediments are called?
a) Sedimentary
b) Igneous
c) Metamorphic
d) Glacial rocks

Rocks that are made from extreme heat and pressure are called?
a) Sedimentary
b) Metamorphic
c) Igenous
d) Quartz

What do topographic maps measure
a) Magnitude
b) Intensity
c) Elevation
d) Outer Core

Which rock strata is the oldest?
a) Top layer
b) Middle
c) All are old
d) Bottom

Index fossils must be widespread and what else?
a) In all layers
b) Old fossils
c) Exist only in 1 time period or layer
d) Only fossils of plants

Cities near the epicenter have..
a) Less damage
b) Depends
c) Same damage as everyone else
d) More damage

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