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Plate Tectonics Pre-Assessment

Authored by Tennille Johnston

Science

3rd Grade - University

NGSS covered

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Plate Tectonics Pre-Assessment
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What type of plate boundary is this?

Plate
Divergent
Convergent
Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

ridges
trenches
basins
rifts

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

rocks
fossils
both fossils and rocks
neither fossils nor rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When plates slide past one another, _________ occur.

divergent boundaries
convection currents
subduction zones
transform faults

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Name the boundary

convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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