Unit 4 Review 7th grade

What are the Earth's landmasses called?

• Pangea
• Oceans
• Continents

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When magma reaches the surface, what is it called?

• lava
• explosive
• rocks

What is the shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock beneath Earth's surface?

• Volcanoes
• Earthquakes
• Plate tectonics

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What is the crust that makes up the ocean floor called?

• oceanic crust
• crust
• continental crust

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The movement of tectonics plates at a fault is a cause of what?

• convergent boundaries
• rift valleys
• Earthquakes

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New seafloor is formed through the process of what?

• seafloor spreading
• continental drift
• divergent boundaries

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Scientists think that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates are caused by convection currents, that are located in the _________?

• outer core
• inner core
• mantle

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The place where old crust is pushed down into a trench is called what?

• subduction
• convection current
• deep-ocean trench

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Two plates move toward each other at what?

• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• divergent boundary

The idea that Earth's crust is made up of separate plates that float on the upper mantle is the theory of what?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3