6th (6.10C - Tectonic Plates) Part 1

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Shanina Pryor
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many major tectonic plates is Earth broken up into?
4
12
6
25
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the theory of plate tectonics say?
Volcanoes are made of plates
Tectonics are plates that cause earthquakes
Earth's surface is broken up into plates that move
Tectonic music is made with plates
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The movement of tectonic plates is due to _____.
convection currents
seafloor spreading
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is seafloor spreading?
Large pieces of lithosphere that move.
Layer made up of the crust and uppermost mantle.
The super continent that existed millions of years ago.
Process by when new oceanic crust forms when magma rises up and solidifies at the mid-ocean ridge.
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is Pangaea?
Huge continent that existed millions of years ago.
Where two plates meet
Where two plates divide
Where two plates collide
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is continental drift?
made of igneous rock
where two plates collide
theory that all earth's continents were once joined together in a singe, huge land mass and then started drifting away from each other
the process by which new oceanic forms when magma rises up
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The observation that the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, and may once have been connected, led Alfred Wegener to prose a theory in 1910 called ____.
continental plowing
wandering continentals
shape matching of the continents
continental drift
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
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