Plate tectonics/Continental Drift and Inner Earth!

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.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

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

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• obstructive

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Convergent

• Transform

• Obtrusive

• Divergent

When two convergent plates come together where the denser one is forced under back into the mantle

• reduction
• conduction
• subduction
• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Wegener's evidence supports his theory of a super continent that he named?

• Ultima
• Pangaea
• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is the thinnest layer of Earth?

• Mantle

• Crust

• Lithosphere

• Inner Core

Which of the following layers are not completely solid?

• Crust

• Outer Core

• Upper Mantle

• Lower Mantle

• Inner Core

Who is credited with proposing the hypothesis of Continental Drift?

• Harry Hess

• Galileo Galilei

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

What happens to temperature and pressure as you get to deeper layers within Earth?

• Temperature and Pressure increase

• Temperature increases, Pressure decreases

• Temperature decreases, Pressure increases

• Temperature and Pressure decreases