Plate tectonics

Study of plates, their movement, and Earth’s features that they affect

• Plate boundaries

• Plate Tectonics

• Major mountains

the region where two lithospheric plates meet

• Continental Drift

• Plate tectonics

• Plate Boundaries

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia.

• Pangaea.

• Eurasia.

• Gondwana.

Tectonic plates consist of

• continental crust.

• mesosphere.

• both continental and oceanic crust.

• oceanic crust.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of

• magnetic reversal.

• global positioning.

• continental drift.

• oceanic drift.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• lithosphere

• core

• asthenosphere

• mesosphere

Tectonic plates “float” on

• the lithosphere.

• the mantle.

• the ocean.

• the asthenosphere.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What was the name of scientist who proposed Continental Drift?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegner

• Charles Rawls

• Steven Doring

The order of the layers of the Earth from the surface to the center is:

• asthenosphere, lithosphere, mesosphere,

  outer core, inner core

• lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere,

  inner core, outer core

• mesosphere, outer core, inner core,

  lithosphere, asthenosphere

• lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere,

  outer core, inner core