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Grade 7 Tectonics
Which often occurs at a divergent boundary?
  1. a strike/slip fault
  2. seafloor spreading
  3. continental drift
  4. plates come together
Grade 7 Tectonics
What most likely forms when two continental plates collide?
  1. a volcano
  2. a glacier
  3. a mountain range
  4. a trench
Grade 7 Tectonics
Grade 7 Tectonics
What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?
  1. convergent
  2. horizontal
  3. divergent
  4. transform
Grade 7 Tectonics
Grade 7 Tectonics
Grade 7 Tectonics
When analyzing a seismogram, amplitude refers to
  1. the number of waves on the seismogram.
  2. the Richter scale reading.
  3. the size of seismic waves on the seismogram.
  4. energy that travels as seismic waves through Earth.
Grade 7 Tectonics
Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?
  1. Harry Hess
  2. Alfred Wegener
  3. Pangaea
  4. J. Tuzo Wilson
Grade 7 Tectonics
Old ocean crust melts at
  1. subduction zones.
  2. ridges.
  3. faults.
  4. beaches.
Grade 7 Tectonics
Mid-ocean rifts form at
  1. convergent boundaries.
  2. divergent boundaries.
Grade 7 Tectonics
Which of the following occurs in a strike-slip fault?
  1. tension
  2. compression
  3. shearing
  4. divergent
Grade 7 Tectonics
Which two continents were used as evidence for the continental puzzle?
  1. North America and Africa
  2. South America and Asia
  3. South America and North America
  4. South America and Africa
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