Synthesizing Notes Practice Test

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
• Pierre de Coubertin helped found the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
• The 1896 Games included 241 athletes competing in 43 events.
• The modern Olympics revived ancient Greek traditions while promoting international athletic competition.
• The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” is Latin for “Faster, Higher, Stronger.”
• The ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia and began in 776 BCE.

The student wants to introduce Pierre de Coubertin and explain his role in launching the modern Olympic Games. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Plate tectonics explains how Earth’s lithospheric plates move and interact.
• Alfred Wegener proposed continental drift in 1912, citing matching coastlines and fossils.
• Mid-ocean ridges are sites where seafloor spreading creates new oceanic crust.
• Subduction zones occur where one plate sinks beneath another, generating earthquakes.
• The theory became widely accepted in the 1960s after multiple lines of evidence.
• Earth’s outer core is liquid, contributing to the planet’s magnetic field.

The student wants to explain two key plate-boundary processes described by plate tectonics. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?