Earth Systems

The continuous movement of the continents.

• geoscience
• rain
• wind
• plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What force is responsible for erosion and deposition in landslides?

• gravity
• ice
• wind
• temperature

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The process by which water, ice, wind, and gravity remove and transport sediments from one place to another.

• erosion
• weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Caves being formed by acid rain dissolving underground limestone.

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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Who came up with the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Wegener

• Harry Hess

• Albert Einstein

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What is the name of the super continent that occured 225 million years ago?

• Pangaea

• Wegener

• Plate tectonics

• continental crust

Which boundary is most likely to build mountains?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What type of boundary is also called a sliding boundary?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

All continents were once connected in a single landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and drifted slowly to their current positions.

• continental drift

• seafloor spreading

• converge

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Hess' theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at mid-ocean ridge

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• diverge

• Pangaea

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