Plate Tectonics Review

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

• The rock cycle

• Supercontinent

• The crust

• Pangea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The evidence is in ______________________, where coastlines and mountain ranges appear to fit together like a puzzle all over the world

• Continental drift

• Plate Tectonics

• The Rock Cycle

• Divergent boundaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The __________________ are chains of undersea mountains.

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

• Ocean Trench

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

______________________ continually adds materials to the ocean floor creating ocean floor.

• Sea-floor spreading

• Ocean trenches

• Divergent mid-ocean ridges

• Convergent mid-ocean ridges

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

_____________________ are undersea that are the deepest part of the ocean.

• Divergent trenches

• Ocean trenches

• Transform trenches

• Mid-ocean trenches

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is D?

• magma
• upper mantle
• lava
• convection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is B?

• ocean trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• rift valley
• volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is A?

• ocean trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• volcano
• rift valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 
• glacier scars and other climate evidence from temperature
• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents
• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6