Plate Tectonics-AWJH

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles and San Francisco are cities on opposite sides of the San Andreas transform boundary. Suggest how both cities will be like at some point in future

• Furthest north and south apart than now
• At the same positions as today
• Drift apart away from the fault line
• Side by side somewhere between them now

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Plate Boundary

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• A peninsula

• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?

• reduction

• conduction

• subduction

• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1