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Plate tectonics and rock cycle

Authored by Missy Critchelow

Science

6th - 8th Grade

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Plate tectonics and rock cycle
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where are tectonic plates located?

outer core

lithosphere

asthenosphere

mesosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleontologists often find fossils of the same species on different continents. Many arguments provide evidence for Pangaea. Which does not?

Many of these organisms could not have traveled across the oceans to where continents are today.

Large hurricanes picked up carcasses of animals and carried them.

Most continents fit together like a puzzle.

Convection currents cause the lithosphere to move like a conveyor belt moving the continents around.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What process drives the movement of tectonic plates?

movement of ocean currents

gravitational pull of the moon

convection currents in the mantle

magnetic field of the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes why identical fossils have been found in South America and Africa?

animals could swim the Atlantic

hurricanes blew them over

The continents were once joined as one landmass.

Nomads took them there.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of large plates and the movements of a number of smaller plates of the Earth's surface.

true

false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What theory explains how the plates of the Earth are continually moving?

Continental Drift Theory

Theory of Evolution

Plate Tectonic Theory

Big Bang Theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of plate boundary has plates moving apart?

divergent

transform

convergent

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