Plate Tectonics Review

Plate Tectonics supports the idea that all continents were once fused together called _____________ .

• The rock cycle

• Supercontinent

• The crust

• Pangea

The evidence is in ______________________, where coastlines and mountain ranges appear to fit together like a puzzle all over the world

• Continental drift

• Plate Tectonics

• The Rock Cycle

• Divergent boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Other evidence include __________________ that plate tectonics does occurr in the crust of the Earth.

• Rock formation, weather, fossils

• Mountain formation, fossils, climate

• Land features, fossils, climate

• Valleys, Ocean trenches, climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

______________________ continually adds materials to the ocean floor creating ocean floor.

• Sea-floor spreading

• Ocean trenches

• Divergent mid-ocean ridges

• Convergent mid-ocean ridges

Oceans plates sink back into the mantle at _______________ zones, keeping the crust the same size.

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Ocean trenches

• Subduction

• Transforming

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This plate boundary moves land apart, creating an ocean trench or a valley on land : ________________________

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-Ocean voundary

This tectonic plate boundary creates mountain ranges: ____________________

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Mid-oceanic boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This tectonic plate slips past each other nor creating or destroying land formations: _____________

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-Ocean boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust is called _________________

• Pangea

• Plate Tectonics

• The Rock Cycle

• Sea-floor spreading

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which tectonic plate moves AWAY from each other...

• Divergent

• Continental

• Transform

• Covergent