Plate Tectonics Vocabulary
Authored by Donna Jones
Science
8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
lithospheric plate made mainly of continental crust
Alfred Wegener
continental drift
continental plate
convection current
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
German meteorologist and geophysicist who used scientific evidence to develop his theory of continental drift in the 1900s
Alfred Wegener
continental drift
continental plate
convection current
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Circulation of material in the mantle caused by differences in temperature and density
Alfred Wegener
continental drift
continental plate
convection current
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Hypothesis that continents are in constant motion
Alfred Wegener
continental drift
continental plate
convection current
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A crack in a body of rock that the rock can move along
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
fault
transform boundary
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
where two plates come together or collide
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
fault
transform boundary
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
fault
transform boundary
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