Plate Tectonics REG

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

• Panthalassa
• Laurasia
• Gondwanna
• Pangaea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The movement of fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another is _____________.

• Convection current
• Seismic waves
• Sea-floor spreading
• Conduction current

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________ (example: Mid-Atlantic Ridge).

• Divergent boundary

• Sea-floor spreading

• Convergent boundary

• Renovating

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Insurgent boundary

_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Allegiant boundary
• Transform boundary
• Sliding boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• emergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• convergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.

• Fissure
• Rift valley
• Sea-floor spreading
• Fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• Seismic waves
• Convection current
• Divergent boundary
• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3