Changing Earth

What kind of plate boundary creates an earthquake?

• Transforming/Sliding

• Convergent

• Divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What plate boundary causes mountains?

• Divergent

• convergent

• Transform/Sliding

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the moving and shifting of plates below the surface of the Earth.

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Plate tectonics

• Volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Who proposed the theory of Continental Drift?

• Your 5th grade teacher

• Alfred Wegner

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

What two pieces of evidence supported Continental Drift theory?

• fossils

• puzzle that fit together AND fossils

• puzzle pieces

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What are the 3 types of rocks?

• Limestone, Granite, Quartz

• Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic

• Sandstone, Shale, Coal

Rocks that are created during weathering and erosion?

• metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Coal

What kind of rock is created by a volcano erupting and then cools and crystalizes?

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of rock is limestone and coal?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of rock means changing which is also implied in its name?

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• igneous

• coal