Plate Tectonics, Rock Cycle, Earthquakes

What type of rock is formed deep underground through heat and pressure?

• Igneous
• Sedimentray
• Metamorphic
• None of these

Fossils are found in what type of rock?

• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What type of boundary is pictured?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• None of these

The youngest rocks would be located _____

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge
• farthest away from the mid-ocean ridge
• in the middle of the mid-ocean ridge
• none of these

What type of rock is forming in this image?

• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• None of these

Paleontologists often find fossils of the same species on different continents. Many arguments provide evidence for Pangaea. Which does not?

• Many of these organisms could not have traveled across the oceans to where continents are today.

• Large hurricanes picked up carcasses of animals and carried them.

• Most continents fit together like a puzzle.

• Convection currents cause the lithosphere to move like a conveyor belt moving the continents around.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What process drives the movement of tectonic plates?

• movement of ocean currents

• gravitational pull of the moon

• convection currents in the mantle

• magnetic field of the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following best describes why identical fossils have been found in South America and Africa?

• animals could swim the Atlantic

• hurricanes blew them over

• The continents were once joined as one landmass.

• Nomads took them there.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of large plates and the movements of a number of smaller plates of the Earth's surface.

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary has plates moving apart?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent