Chapter 17 Study Guide Answers
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• Pangaea
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• 1. Puzzle-like fit
• 2. Widespread plant
• 3. Animal fossil
• 4. Climate clues (glaciers)
• 5. Rock clues (similar
mountains)
#3
• Oceanic and continental
• Oceanic and oceanic
• Continental and continental
will not have subduction.
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• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
#5
• Divergent- Mid-ocean ridges
• Convergent (without
subduction)- Mountains
• Convergent (with subduction)Volcanoes, volcanic islands,
and deep-sea trenches
• Transform- Earthquakes
#6
• Laurasia
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• Gondwanaland
#8
• The continents drifted apart
to their current locations.
#9
• Hot rising
• Cool sinking
• Circular motion
#10
• When a oceanic plate goes
under another oceanic plate
of a continental plate. It is a
type of convergent boundary.
#11
• Younger crust is in the middle
• Older crust is on the outside
• Divergent Boundary
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Asthenosphere
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• The Atlantic Ocean is expanding
because 4 plates form a divergent
boundary in the middle of the ocean.
This is causing the seafloor to spread
apart. The Pacific Ocean is shrinking
because the Pacific Plate is surrounded
by convergent plate boundaries that
have subduction. Basically the Pacific
Ocean is being consumed.
#14
• Renewable- a natural resource that can
used over and over without depleting its
supply. Ex. hydropower, solar, wind,
biomass, and geothermal.
• Nonrenewable- a resource that exists in
the Earth’s crust in a fixed amount that
takes a long time to be replaced. Ex.
Uranium, petroleum (oil), natural gas,
propane, and coal.
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