McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center Test<BLURT>

McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center Test

1. Review the animation and answer the following questions.

The earth's crust is

A. static.
B. divided into 12 tectonic plates.
C. divided into 7 plates corresponding to the continents.
D. shifting very rapidly.

2. The last time all of earth's major land masses were together as one supercontinent, that supercontinent was called A. Gondwana.
B. Pangea.
C. Laurasia.
D. Eurasia.

3. We would expect that the more recently two land masses separated from each other, A. the more closely related the terrestrial animals on the two masses would be.
B. the more distantly related the terrestrial animals on the two masses would be.
C. the more distantly related the terrestrial plants on the two masses would be.
D. the more distantly related the aquatic animals native to each mass would be.

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