Test Review: Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Theories

What type of tectonic plate boundary involves plates colliding?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• obstructive

Where do most volcanoes occur?

• convergent boundaries

• in deserts

• on coastal plains

• divergent boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where does magma rise to the top to become new crust?

• one plate splits into two distinct plates

• one plate grinds against another plate

• two plates separate and move apart from one

  another.

• two plates meet and collide with one another.

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What is responsible for the volcanoes and mountain ranges?

• Weathering

• Super-nocturnal tides

• Hurricanes

• Plate Tectonics

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What is made when two tectonic plates carrying land collide?

• Rift Valleys

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Tall mountain ranges

• Deep-sea trenches

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What type of boundary exists when 2 plates are dividing?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Obtrusive

• Divergent

What do these color strips show between South America and Africa with the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

• Similar cultures

• Similar fossils

• Similar languages

• Similar weather

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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A boundary where two plates slide past each other.

• convergent boundary
• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Wegener's evidence supports his theory of a super continent that he named?

• Ultima
• Pangaea
• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This theory states Earth's  plates move on top of the mantle at a slow constant rate

• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift
• Superposition
• Pangaea 

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