Plate tectonics and Earth's Interior 2021 B. Jones

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

What did Wegener think happened during continental drift?

• continents froze over
• continents moved
• the mantle warmed
• convection stopped

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?

• decreases
• increases
• fluctuates
• remains the same

The vibration and shaking of the Earth...

• volcanism
• plateau
• earthquake
• richter scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Younger sea floor crust is located...

• farther from the mid-ocean ridges
• at the mid ocean ridges
• at the subduction zone
• near the continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate and old crust is recycled?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Plate Tectonics supports the idea that all continents were once fused together called _____________ .

• The rock cycle

• Supercontinent

• The crust

• Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Other evidence include __________________ that plate tectonics does occurr in the crust of the Earth.

• Rock formation, weather, fossils

• Mountain formation, fossils, climate

• Land features, fossils, climate

• Valleys, Ocean trenches, climate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

______________________ continually adds materials to the ocean floor creating ocean floor.

• Sea-floor spreading

• Ocean trenches

• Divergent mid-ocean ridges

• Convergent mid-ocean ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3