Plate Tectonics

A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.

• wedge
• plate
• chunk
• fault

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

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

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

_________ are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.

• Seismic Waves
• Rumbles
• Plate Tectonics
• Convection Currents

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

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.MS-ESS2-3

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 ___________.

• Divergent boundary
• Sea-floor spreading
• Convergent boundary
• Renovating 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced?

• Rift valley
• Deep-ocean trench
• Mid-ocean ridge
• Transform bounda

A __________ is a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.

• deep-ocean trench
• rift valley
• sea-floor spreading
• mid-ocean ridge

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

In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

• along the edges of all the continents.

• along mid-ocean ridges.

• in deep-ocean trenches.

• at the north and south poles.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2