Plate Tectonics/Topographic Maps Review

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Issac Newton

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time
• Continents are stationary and do not move
• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents
• none of the above

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 
• glacier scars and evidence from temperature
• mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Why did no one believe Wegener's thoery?

• He could not explain HOW the continents moved
• He didn't have evidence
• His data was wrong
• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations? 

• at plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

In Seafloor Spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts or flows out 

• along the edges of all the continents
• along mid-ocean ridges
• in the deep ocean trenches
• in the north and south poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1