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Name of the prehistoric supercontinent.
A. Eurasia
B. North America
C. Pangaea
What is Pangaea?
What is the location on the H-R Diagram where most stars lie?
A. Supergiants
B. Main Sequence
C. White dwarfs
Main Sequence
Number of plate boundaries
A. 4
B. 3
C. 5
What is three?
How old is the universe?
A. 2,020 years old
B. 13,700,000,000 years old
C. 10,000 years old
13,700,000,000 years old
Created when two continental plates collide.
A. Volcano
B. Folded mountains
C. Trench
Folded mountains
Who is the scientist that suggested Continental Drift?
A. Alfred Wegener
B. Harry Hess
C. Albert Einstien
A. Alfred Wegener
What is a Red giant star?
A. small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old star
B. a very luminous, starlike object that generates energy at a high rate
C. a large, reddish star late in its life cycle
a large, reddish star late in its life cycle
What is it called when two plates divide?
A. Convergent boundary
B. Transform boundary
C. Divergent boundary
A Divergent boundary
What is a collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity?
A. Galaxy
B. Nebula
C. Solar system
Galaxy
New crust is formed at this mountain range
A. Mid-Atlantic ridge
B. Himalayan mountains
C. Rocky mountains
Mid-Atlantic ridge
What happens when magma rises, cools, and hardens into new crust pushing old crust to the side?
A. Continental Drift
B. Subduction
C. Seafloor Spreading
What is Seafloor Spreading?
What is an object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity?
A. Black hole
B. Neutron star
C. Sun
Black hole
What type of boundary has ocean crust destroyed under continental crust?
A. convergent continental - oceanic boundary
B. divergent oceanic - oceanic boundary
c. convergent continental - continental boundary
convergent continental - oceanic boundary
What is a galaxy that is a massive blob of stars made mostly of old stars?
A. Spiral galaxy
B. Irregular galaxy
C. Elliptical galaxy
Elliptical galaxy
Created when a oceanic plate dives under a continental plate and old crust is destroyed.
A. Volcanic island
B. Mid-Ocean ridge
C. Volcanic mountain
A volcanic mountain
The amount of time it took for Pangaea to break apart until present day.
A. 65 million years
B. 250 million years
C. 100 thousand years
What is 250 million years?
What is a small, hot, dim star that is located at the bottom left of the HR diagram?
A. Main sequence
B. Red dwarf
C. White dwarf
White dwarf
This type of boundary is also known as a strike-slip or lateral fault boundary.
A. Convergent
B. Transform
C. Divergent
A transform boundary
Why is the Sun's apparent magnitude more than any other star in our universe?
A. It is thousands of times closer to Earth
B. It is the only star we can see
C. It is located on the outer edge of the Milky way
It is thousands of times closer to Earth
Responsible for most of the earthquakes in California
A. San Andreas fault
B. Hayward fault
C. Denali fault
The San Andreas fault
What is rock evidence of continental drift?
A. North American Appalachian mountains and Scandinavian Highlands are the same mountains.
B. No rocks on Earth are the same
C. The Himalayan mountains are still growing
A. North American Appalachian mountains and Scandinavian Highlands are the same mountains.
A star is not a star until the combination of the nuclei of small atoms to form a larger nucleus is called?
A. Nuclear fission
B. Nuclear fusion
C. Nuclear combination
Nuclear fusion
What happens to the crust at a convergent continental -continental boundary?
A. Crust is destroyed as it plunges into the mantle
B. Crust is created as magma pushes upward
C. Crust is neither created or destroyed just deformed
Crust is neither created or destroyed just deformed
What is a very luminous, starlike object that generates energy at a high rate?
A. Comet
B. Irregular galaxy
C. Quasar
Quasar
What are features formed at subduction zones?
A. Fault lines and earthquakes
B. Volcanic islands, trenches, and island arcs
C. Trenches, folded mountains, mid-ocean ridges
Volcanic islands, trenches, and island arcs