Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

9th - 12th Grade

12 Qs

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Plate Tectonics

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Assessment

Quiz

Science

9th - 12th Grade

Medium

NGSS
HS-ESS1-5, HS-ESS2-1, HS-ESS2-3

+1

Standards-aligned

Created by

Cynthia Fullerton

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Rocky or rigid outer part of Earth consisting of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle

Lithosphere

Oceanic Crust

Continental Crust

Asthenosphere

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth’s solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface.

Lithosphere

Earthquake

Convection Currents

Core

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Solid, outer layer and is made of both the oceanic and continental crust.

Hydrosphere

Core

Mantle

Crust

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.

Convection Current

Lithosphere

Core

Magma

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses. It is generally older and more complex than the oceanic crust.

Oceanic Crust

Continental Crust

Magma

Inner Core

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the region where two continental plates collide, what geological feature MOST often forms?

an ocean

a volcano

a river valley

a mountain chain

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Crustal plates that pull apart from one another MOST likely form

volcanic island arcs

strike-slip faults

oceanic trenches

rift zones

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

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