Plate Tectonics Review

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Inner Core
• Crust

What is the name of the layer that contains the uppermost mantle and crust

• Asthenosphere
• Mesosphere
• Lithosphere
• Transosphere

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Reform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust
• oceanic crust
• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere

Evidence to support continental drift included ______________.

• remains of human beings on a number of continents
• similar fossils found on different continents
• how the continents drifted
• written records

Why is the Inner Core Solid

• unknown
• what its made of
• pressure
• extreme heat

What type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates separate?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform

Warm-weather animal specie's fossils found on cold continents have helped to prove Wegener's Continental Drift Theory was probably correct. 

• True
• False

Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic plates?

• outer core
• inner core
• asthenosphere
• lithosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates slide past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3