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Plate Tectonics

Authored by Caitlin Fry

Science

6th - 8th Grade

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Plate Tectonics
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

plate
rift
fault
breach

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Seismic Waves
Rumbles
Plate Tectonics
Convection Currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

Panthalassa
Laurasia
Gondwanna
Pangaea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________.

Divergent boundary
Sea-floor spreading
Convergent boundary
Renovating 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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

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