
Practice for Plate Tectonics Test
Authored by Terry Childs
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6th - 7th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
These occur around plate boundaries.
Earthquakes and erosion
Hurricanes and tsunamis
Title waves and volcanoes
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is believed to cause seafloor spreading and continental drift?
Tides
Convection currents in the mantle
The earth's magnetic field
The shrinking and expanding of the earth's crust
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What type of plate boundary can you find a rift valley?
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What landform forms at a convergent boundary?
Ridges
Trenches
Valleys
Mountains
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Choose all tectonic events.
Convection currents are causing plates to move
Spreading plates create new oceanic crust
Plate moving together cause volcanos and new oceanic crust
Outward movement of plates creates pressure on other plates which could lead to subduction
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Where are plates located?
Outer Core
Lithosphere
Mesosphere
Asthenosphere
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Most people didn't buy into Wegener's theory immediately because
He had to many pieces of evidence to support his theory
Knowing what the Earth looked like millions of years ago was impossible
He couldn't identify what made the continents move
They were afraid of his theory
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
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