Mastery Quiz 1-Plate Tectonics

Outermost layer of the Earth containing the crust and uppermost rigid part of the mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Mesosphere

• Lithosphere

• Core

Idea proposed by Alfred Wegener that the continents move; explained why the same fossils and rock formations were found on now widely-separated continents

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Crust making up the continents; thicker and less dense than oceanic crust

• Oceanic

• Continental

• Asthenosphere

Process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Subduction

• Continental Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Process where one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as they converge

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Subduction

• Mid Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Heat transfer by the motion of a fluid away from the heat source

• Slab Pull

• Convection

• Radioactive Decay

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A long, narrow trench in oceanic crust usually lying above a subduction zone

• Ocean Trench

• Sea Trench

• Lake Trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

underwater mountain chain formed as tectonic plates spread apart; wraps around the globe like the seam of a baseball

• Smoky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountians

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A famous supercontinent that existed about 225 million years ago and has since broken up

• Wegener

• Pangaea

• Eurasia

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Processes that break down the

• Constructive

• Destructive

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2