Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

Assessment

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Science

8th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS1-5, MS-ESS2-2

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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What discoveries support the idea of continental drift?

Age and Magnetic Properties of the Sea Floor

Ocean Trenches

Sea-Floor Spreading

Laurasia and Gondwana

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In this process, molten rock from inside Earth rises through cracks in the ridges, cools, and forms new crust.

Slab Pulling

Sea-Floor Spreading

Continental Drift

Convergence

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Earth's Surface is all one piece.

True

False

True, but it breaks apart every year.

False, but they are sticking together and will eventually become one piece.

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What two plates help to form the San Andreas Fault Line?

North American Plate

Nazca Plate

Eurasian Plate

Pacific Plate

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is not a tectonic plate?

African Plate

Eurasian Plate

Indian Plate

Atlantic Plate

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are three types of plate boundaries?

Sliding

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of boundary occurs when two plates collide?

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

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