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Plate Tectonics Review

Authored by Ivah Hagner

Science

9th - 12th Grade

NGSS covered

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Plate Tectonics Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

This single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents is called

Pangrea

Pangaea

Continental Drift

Plate Tectonics

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

The tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

Subduction

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

The formation of new areas of oceanic crust which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side

Subduction

Transform

Convergent

Sea-Floor Spreading

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

This is when one plate goes under another

Transform

Sea-floor Spreading

Subduction

Divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

Look at this image. What type of plate boundary is this?

Divergent

Complex or Uncertain

Transform

Convergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle is called

Continental Drift

Plate Tectonics

Pangaea

Earthquake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

A volcanically active area of the Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary

Fault

Crust

Core

Hot Spot

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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