A) similarities in early development.
B) similarities in number mates.
C) similarities in body structure.
D) similarities in DNA.

A) fossil A
B) fossils A and B are the same age
C) fossil C
D) fossil B

A) to provide information about how current life forms would exist in previous environmental conditions
B) to provide information about current life forms and current environmental conditions
C) to provide information about how life and environmental conditions may have changed
D) to provide information about how previous life forms would exist in current environmental conditions

A) footprints and shells
B) rare minerals
C) rocks and sand
D) hieroglyphics

A) Fossils give clues about environmental changes where the organism lived.
B) Fossils can give clues of changes in the organism´s body structure over time.
C) Fossils can be used to date the time period of rocks and rock layers when the organism lived.
D) All of the statements are true.

A) carbon film
B) original remains
C) permineralized remains
D) trace fossil

A) That these rocks must have been moved there by some one else.
B) That these rocks were once below the surface of an ocean.
C) That these organisms left the ocean and climbed to the top of an inland mountain to die.
D) That these rocks were always above the surface of an ocean.

A) the time it takes to orbit the Earth
B) the sickness of the mantle
C) the fossil record
D) the distance from the Sun to the Earth

A) rock cycle processes
B) rapid burial, gentle burial, burrowing animals and hard parts
C) fossils
D) weathering, erosion, plate tectonics

A) original material that includes mummified fossils and remains preserved in amber, tar pits, or ice.
B) an organism dies and the carbon in its body starts to break down.
C) the body of an organism leaves an imprint in the sediment.
D) an organism´s body tissues are replaced by minerals and preserve the shape of the organism´s body.

A) A and B
B) C
C) B
D) A

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) B and C

A) two plates move toward each other.
B) two plates slide horizontally past each other.
C) two plates move toward and away from each other.
D) two plates move away from each other.

A) Asthenosphere, Lithosphere, Trench
B) Lithosphere, Oceanic Crust, Continental Crust
C) Trench, Volcanic Arc, Continental Crust
D) Crust, Asthenosphere, Ocean

A) mid-ocean ridges
B) strike slip faults
C) mountain ranges
D) rift valleys

A) a fault
B) a sinkhole
C) a syncline
D) an anticline

A) intense radiation from the Sun
B) strong water currents in the ocean
C) the gravitational attraction of the Moon
D) the movement of tectonic plates

A) compress and expand motion in direction of travel and have faster velocity.
B) are not originate at the earthquake focus.
C) do not create motion at Earth´s surface.
D) only travels through solids.

A) the name of the ancient supercontinent.
B) the process by which tectonic plates move around the Earth.
C) a type of thick, sticky lave
D) the name of scientist who first discovered plate tectonics.

A) A meteorite collided into this place.
B) Rift valleys are a part of every continent.
C) Two landmasses combined to form Africa.
D) Continents may have broken in the past as well.

A) Only continental drift theory explains why the coastlines of the continents seem to match.
B) Only plate tectonics theory explains the patterns of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth.
C) Only plate tectonics theory explains why mountain ranges are located where they are.
D) Only continental drift theory explains why climates on the continents have changed over time.

A) Continental rocks are much older than the rocks that make up the ocean basins.
B) Old seafloor is diving back into the mantle at subduction zones.
C) The continents of Africa and South America were once joined together as a single landmass.
D) New seafloor is being formed at the mid-ocean ridges as the plates move apart.

A) Earth´s crust is made of pieces that move slowly over, against, and apart from each other.
B) Only the continents move, traveling slowly over and through Earth´s crust.
C) All of the continents were once joined together into a single supercontinent.
D) The continents are fixes and have always been located in their present positions.

A) It was rejected from the start and is still not accepted.
B) It was accepted at first but has since been rejected.
C) It was rejected at the beginning but was later accepted.
D) It was accepted from the beginning and still is today.

A) Metamorphic
B) Igneous
C) Sedimentary

A) is divided into tectonic plates.
B) includes Earth´s crust.
C) behaves like a fluid.

A) mountains.
B) core.
C) crust.
D) asthenosphere.

A) Earth´s surface.
B) the asthenosphere.
C) space.

A) A volcanic eruption.
B) Building falling apart.
C) Seismic waves.
D) Tectonic plates movement.

A) B
B) A
C) B and C
D) C