Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, & Earthquakes

Theory that magma rises to surface at mid-ocean ridge & cools to form new seafloor

• Continental drift

• Plate tectonics

• Volcanoes

• Seafloor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

• Transform fault boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Strike-slip fault

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Shaking of the ground caused by sudden movement of large blocks of rocks along a fault

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Tsunami

• Surface waves

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Plates slide grind/slide  past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the force that moves the continents? 

• Conduction 
• Convection 
• Radiation 
• Conveyor belts 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory? 

• Fossils, Fish, and Land
• Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate
• Fossils, Land forms, and Climate
• Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphic rock 

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The continents move very slowly, only a few __________per year.

• meters
• kilometers
• centimeters
• miles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

India, Australia, South America, and Africa all have deep grooves or scratches in rocks which is climate evidence of ....

• erosion
• dinosaurs
• glaciers
• aliens

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The east coast of South America seems to fit into the wet coast of Africa, this evidence for Continental Drift is called...

• fit/shape of continents
• fossil evidence
• geologic evidence
• climate evidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3