Planet Earth- Plate tectonics & Rock cycle

Select the image that shows a transform boundary

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Select the image that shows a divergent boundary

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Wegener hypothesised that all the continents formed a supercontinent, pangea. How term describes the separation of continents?

• uplift

• plate shift

• Continental drift

• Crust separation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This picture shows how earthquakes and volcanoes mostly found in narrow zones around the edges of continents and ocean basins and along island chains. What is this area called?

• Volcano and earthquake hot spot

• The ring of fire

• The ring of danger

• Plate tectonic hot spot

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Sea floor spreading...

• is a kind of fault, a break in Earth’s crust where the rocks on either side have moved

• are a chain of volcanic mountains found on the seafloor

• are deep valleys along the seafloor

• is the rocks on either side of the mid-ocean ridge slowly pull away from each other, allowing molten rock to rise, solidify, and form new seafloor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

During subduction two plates collide and the ____ dense plate sinks under the _____dense plate.

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What type of rock changes in composition or texture by heat and pressure..

• Metamorphic

• sedimentary

• igneous

• crystal

Igneous rocks form by...

• a solid structure with atoms arranged in a repeating geometric pattern

• rock changed in composition or texture by heat and pressure

• rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma on or below Earth’s surface

• rock formed from the deposition of dissolved materials, rock fragments, or the remains of organisms

1. What two types of information would scientists consider to determine where and how this sample of rock formed?

• Texture and composition

• Texture and where it was found

• Where it was found and composition