1) This idea was proposed by Alfred Wegener to explain the continental shapes and position a) Continental Drift b) Plate Tectonics 2) When volcanic eruption spews gases and ash into the air, which two spheres are interacting a) biosphere & geosphere b) geosphere & atmosphere 3) According to CDT the earth was one big supercontinent called a) Pangea b) Panthalassa 4) When Earth's crust bends, forces act towards each other, it may result a) Bending b) Earthquake 5) When the Earth's crust cracks and tension forms or develops, its called a) Folding b) Faulting 6) The supercontinent called Pangea was believed to exist ___ million years ago a) 120 b) 200 7) The Earth is estimated to be around 4.6billion years old, this was based from a) Rock & Fossils recorded b) Record of an Earthquake 8) 80% of all earthquake occur in the a) Pacific Belt b) Atlantic Belt 9) This explains the concept of an earthquake, where rocks bend until the strength of the rock exceeded and rupture accurs a) Sea-floor Spreading b) Elastic Rebound 10) Tsunamis are big waves that are caused by a) Underwater earthquake or volcanis eruption b) earthquake or volcanic eruption on land 11) This type of wave has the greatest velocity of all earthquake waves and the first to arrive at a seismic station  a) Secondary waves (S waves) b) Primary Waves (P waves 12) Earthquake epicenters are identified through a) Scaling Method b) Triangulation Method 13) Its used to show that the continents used to fit together a) Magnetic Poles b) Fossils and rocks records 14) When two continental plates collide, edges of the continents are pushed upward forming a) Countinental mountain range b) Rift Valley 15) Which BEST describe how heat travels through the Earth's Layers a) heat from the mantle passes to the core and to the lithospere b) heat from radiation in the core passes through convection currents in the mantle 16) The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake is the ___ a) Focus b) Epicenter 17) What does a seismograph record? a) Speed of seismic waves b) The ground movements caused by seismic waves 18) The Higher the waves on a seismograph the ____ a) Stronger the Earthquake b) closer the earthquake 19) Scientist thinks that convection currents flow in the Earth's ____ a) inner core b) asthenosphere 20) A boundary where plates move away from each other is called a) Divergent b) Convergent c) Transform 21) In TRANSFORM plate boundary plates moves _______ a) towards each other b) past each other 22) In CONVERGENT plate boundary plates moves _______ a) away from each other b) towards each other 23) In DIVERGENT plate boundary plates moves _______ a) away from each other b) past from each other 24) This kind of plate boundary results formation of most volcanoes a) Transform PB b) Convergent PB 25) What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of San Andreas Fault a) Transform Fault Boundary b) Divergent Plate Boundary 26) When MAGMA reaches the Earth's surface its called a) Lava b) Rocks 27) The Mountain Range in Philippines  a) Mt. Pinatubo b) Sierra Madre 28) Lithospere contains a) Crust, upper portion of the mantle b) rocks, magma 29) Where one plate is subducted below the other plate a) Compression b) Subduction 30) What type of plate boundary does Subduction and Compression Occurs a) Divergent Plate Boundary b) Convergent Plate Boundary 31) What type of plate boundary does Tension Occurs a) Transform Fault Boundary b) Divergent Plate Boundary 32) What two specific continents fit together most noticeably a) Africa and North America b) South America and Africa

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