Plate Tectonics Review

Plate Tectonics supports the idea that all continents were once fused together called _____________ .

• The rock cycle

• Supercontinent

• The crust

• Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Oceans plates sink back into the mantle at _______________ zones, keeping the crust the same size.

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Ocean trenches

• Subduction

• Transforming

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This plate boundary moves land apart, creating an ocean trench or a valley on land : ________________________

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-Ocean voundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This tectonic plate slips past each other nor creating or destroying land formations: _____________

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-Ocean boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core is called the ________________.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Both the crust and the mantle

• Both the mantle and the core

Which tectonic plate boundary SLIDES past each other...

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Continental

Which tectonic plate moves TOWARDS each other...

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Continental

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which tectonic plate moves AWAY from each other...

• Divergent

• Continental

• Transform

• Covergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these is NOT causes by the moving of tectonic plates?

• Valleys

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Hurricanes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Who developed the continental drift theory?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Jason Morgan

• Bill Nye

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5