Plate Tectonics (7)

Which force is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates?

• Gravity

• Convection Currents

• Electricity

• Magnetism

Which describes the plate movement where mountains would form?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following land features are associated with Divergent plate boundaries:

I. Volcanic Island

II. Mid Ocean Ridge

III. Mountains

IV. Ocean Basin

• IV and V

• II, III, and IV

• II and IV

• I, II, and III

Mountains are created by which boundary-

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

What geological feature is created at the MID OCEAN RIDGE?

• Mountain

• Volcano

• Plateau

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move.
• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking.
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is Pangaea?

• The name of a German Scientist
• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms
• evidence from fossils
• evidence from human remains
• evidence from climate

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

• along the edges of all the continents
• along mid ocean ridges
• in deep ocean trenches
• at the north and south poles

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as

• convection
• continental drift
• subduction
• conduction