Plate Tectonics

Early observers thought continents may have been joined based on what observations

• rocks and fossils

• earthquakes.

• magnetism.

• coastline

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined
• The sea floor is spreading
• Continents are moving
• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.
• Antarctica, India, and America.
• all of Earth’s continents.
• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Evidence used by Wegener to supported his idea of continental drift included

• Ocean rocks and sediments
• Ocean floor topography
• Magnetic isochron patterns
• Climatic data

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where are most divergent boundaries located?

• Along the middle of most ocean floors
• Along the margins of most continents
• Across the middle of many continents
• All the above options are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

• Oceanic/Continental
• Oceanic/Oceanic
• Continental/Continental
• None of the above

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What type of features are associated with a divergent boundary?

• Rift valleys
• Volcanic mountains
• Fold mountains
• Fault block mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

• Radiation in the core
• Conduction in the lithosphere
• Convection in the Asthenosphere
• None of these options is true

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of rock makes most of the oceanic crust

• Sedimentary
• Basalt
• Metamorphic
• Limestone

The San Andréa fault in California is one example of a...  

• Divergent boundary
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2