Plate Tectonics Pre-Assessment

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

• Continental crust
• oceanic crust
• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The youngest material of the ocean floor is found at mid-ocean _________.

• ridges
• trenches
• basins
• rifts

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The presence of the same ________ on several continents supports the idea of continental drift.

• rocks
• fossils
• both fossils and rocks
• neither fossils nor rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

When plates slide past one another, _________ occur.

• divergent boundaries
• convection currents
• subduction zones
• transform faults

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What geologic process formed the Himalayas? 

• two continental plates converging
• an earthquake in a subduction zone
• a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
• movement at a transform fault boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge in the Atlantic were all created by this boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

subduction zones in the ocean can create which features?

• islands
• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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.MS-ESS2-3