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Plate Tectonics V2

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7th Grade

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Plate Tectonics V2
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which best describe the Earth's tectonic plates?

Something dinner is served on

Giant pieces of moving crust that float on the mantle

Huge mountains at the bottom of the world's oceans

Static and unmoving

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What is the theory called that states that the crust of the Earth is broken into pieces called plates that move randomly by floating on the mantle?

continental drift

sea floor spreading

plate tectonics

magnetic striping

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What do you call the area where two or more plates come together?

plate boundaries

plate outlines

plates

continents

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

ridges

trenches

basins

rifts

5.

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

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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A lack of evidence for continental drift prevented many scientists from believing a single supercontinent called _________ existed.

Glossopteris
Pangaea
Gondwanaland
Mesosaurus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Many scientists think hot plastic-like rock in the mantle is forced upward toward the surface, cools, and sinks. This process is called a(n) _________.

earthquake

convergent boundary

volcano

convection current

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