Plate Tectonics

Who is the German Scientist that came up with the theory of the Continental Drift?

• Albert Einstein

• Mrs. Azzaretto

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the force that moves the continents?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conveyor belts

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

What evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

• glacier scars and other climate evidence from temperature

• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangea

• Asia

• Pantallasa

• Eurasi

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What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and basin

• lower and upper

• thick and thin

What type of plate is thicker?

• continental

• oceanic

Created by a divergent boundary.

• Rocky Mountains
• Mariana Trench
• Mid Atlantic ridge

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called...

• death ring
• fire zone
• ring of fire
• zone of fire

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