Plate Tectonics

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined

• Continents are moving

• The sea floor is spreading

• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Early observers thought continents may have been joined based on what observations

• rocks and fossils

• earthquakes.

• magnetism.

• coastline

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.

• Antarctica, India, and America.

• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

• all of Earth’s continents.

Which of the following was NOT evidence used by Wegener to supported his idea of continental drift?

• Climate

• Coastline and physical features

• Ocean floor magnetic patterns

• Fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Wegener suggested that fossils discovered in Antarctica indicated that this continent was

• once under water

• once near the equator

• part of Africa

• always frozen

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Peer scientists reviewing Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because he did not explain how the continents move and what moves them.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

There are 3 different types of plate boundries. Which of the following is NOT a type of plate boundary?

• Transform

• Thrust

• Convergent

• Divergent

What type of features are associated with a divergent boundary?

• Rift valleys

• Volcanic mountains

• Fold mountains

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

• Radiation in the core

• Subduction in the crust

• Convection in the mantle

• None of these options is true

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and hurricanes are directly caused by plate tectonics

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2