Continental Drift/Plate Tectonics

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• New continents are continually being created

  and destroyed.

• The layout of the continents is the same today

  as it has always been

• The continents have always been separate but

  may one day drift together to form a single

  continent

• All the continents were once one continent that

  broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of

  millions of years

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What do these color strips show between South America and Africa with the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

• Similar cultures

• Similar fossils

• Similar languages

• Similar weather

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.
• Antarctica, India, and America.
• all of Earth’s continents.
• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Alfred Wegener proposed the Theory of Continental Drift. Which one of these does NOT support the theory Wegener proposed?

• Fossils that were similar were found on different continents.

• Bacteria was found all over the world.

• Shape of continents fit together to form a supercontinent called Pangea

• Climate seen as glacial or ice sharring are found all over the world.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The theory of continental drift states that all the continents were once part of one big landmass called Pangaea. Who was the scientist that came up with this theory?

• Harry Hess

• Bill Nye

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Put these layers in order from the center of Earth outward

• Mantle, crust, inner core, outer core

• outer core, inner core, mantle, crust

• Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

Earth's crust is broken up into several large rocky pieces called ...

• plates
• faults
• fossils
• puzzle pieces

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic plates float on top of the

• crust

• asthenosphere

• lower mantle

• outer core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

If you took rock samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the youngest rock would be

• located where the plates collide

• located at the place where rocks are furthest from the rift valley

• Located at the center of the ridge (rift valley), where oceanic crust is formed

• none of the above; all the rocks would be the same age

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This is the process of warm liquids rising while cooler liquids sink.

• Convection
• Subduction
• Boiling
• Uplift

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4