Plate Tectonics

Name this plate boundary.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• allegiant 

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Name this plate boundary.

• divergent 
• convergent
• transform
• transformers

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Name this plate boundary.

• divergent
• convergent 
• transform
• insurgent

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200-300 million years ago, the continents were joined in a single land mass called...

• Pan America
• Pangaea
• Pan Acean
• 'Murica

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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Who is known as the "Father of Continental Drift"?

• Harry Hess
• Abraham Ortelius
• Alfred Wegner
• John Tuzo Wilson

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What are the deepest places on Earth formed by pushing oceanic crust under continental crust?

• mid-ocean ridges
• rift valleys
• trenches
• mountain ranges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What forms when denser oceanic crust is pushed under less dense oceanic crust?

• mountains
• volcanic islands
• rift valleys
• mid-ocean ridges

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This theory states that Earth's  plates move on top of the mantle at a slow and constant rate due to convection currents

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• seafloor spreading
• pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Large pieces of Earth's lithosphere that move around are called?

• sections
• plates
• land masses
• faults

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Which piece of evidence was not used by Wegener to support his theory of continental drift?

• South America and Africa coastlines
• coal beds in Antarctica
• plant and reptile fossils
• earthquake patterns

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