Plate Tectonics #1

What is D?

• magma
• upper mantle
• lava
• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Fossils of land mammals found on different continents now seperated by oceans

• glacier scars and other climate evidence of continents moving from a different location

• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Theory that the crust is divided into large pieces called tectonic plates that slowly move due to convection in the asthenosphere

• Plate Tectonics

• Lithosphere

• Convergence

• Divergence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which piece of crust is the most dense and is always subducted?

• Oceanic

• Continental

• Neither

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What name is given to the chains of underwater mountains that form from the creation of new crust ?

• Deep Ocean Trenches

• Fold Mountains

• Fault Lines

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Divergent _________, transform __________ and convergent ____________.

• Collide, slide, divide

• Divide, collide, slide

• Divide, slide, collide

• Slide, collide, divide.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the lithosphere?

• large, flat stones sitting on top of malleable magma
• the plates that make up the crust
• the upper part of the mantle
• the plates that make up the crust and the upper part of the mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which layer of the Earth has Convection currents occurring within the layer?

• Crust

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Inner Core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Plates move towards each another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• detergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates move away from each other at ___________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transorm
• submergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3