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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