Plate Tectonics Unit Assessment

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Donald Trump

• Alfred Wegener

• Sir Isaac Newton

According to the theory of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents DO NOT move

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass, and these plates will continue to move.

What is it called when two oceanic plates move apart and new crust is formed?

• crustal integrating

• sea-floor spreading

• subduction

What type of boundary exists when 2 plates are pulling apart?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Obtrusive

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• obstructive

When plates move past each other in opposite directions, what type of boundary is formed?

• convergent

• divergent

• collisional

• transform

Breaks in the crust called __________ form where plates meet.

• mountains

• rift valleys

• faults

• trenches

________________ currents drive Earth's plate movement.

• ocean

• atmosphere

• wind

• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is the name of the single landmass that existed 300 million years ago, and then began to break apart?

• Panthalassa

• Laurasia

• Gondwanna

• Pangaea

What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?

• Subduction
• Induction
• Abduction 
• Reduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1