Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

6th - 8th Grade

22 Qs

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Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

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Science

6th - 8th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS1-5, MS-ESS2-1

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22 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which type of evidence would a geologist need to support plate tectonic theory?

Plate fossils that are similar in size

The weathering and erosion of coastlines

New crust formed by the sea floor spreading

Rocks with different physical appearances

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these explains how an ocean trench can form at a subduction zone?

Two oceanic plates converging

Two continental plates converging

Two continental plates diverging

Two oceanic plates diverging

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Seafloor spreading occurs when…

Two oceanic plates converge

Magma pushes up between plates creating new seafloor

A trench is present

Two oceanic plates transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is evidence to support continental drift?

Computers were used in 1965 to match up coastlines of South America and Africa

The same fossils of earthworms were found in South America, Africa, India and Australia

It was observed that the Argentinean mountain range lines up with the South African mountain range

All of the above

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who created the theory of continental drift?

Albert Einstein

Alfred Wegener

Bill Henry

Benjamin Franklin

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What causes convection currents in the mantle? *

The rising of warmed magma and sinking of cooled magma

The rising of cooled magma and the sinking of warmed magma

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A convergent boundary...

collides together

divides apart

slides against each other

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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