Plate Techtonics

Which of the following is NOT evidence that supports the theory of continental drift?

• Rock layers match up across different continents

• Similar fossils are found on different continents

• The outline of continents looked like pieces of a puzzle

• Glaciers are found in cold areas

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is the correct order of layers of the Earth (moving from surface to the centre)

• mantle, crust, outer core, inner core

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

• inner core, crust, mantle, outer core

Which type of plate boundary is produced when tectonic plates move towards each other?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Continent

Which type of plate boundary is produced when tectonic plates move away from each other?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Continent

What does the Richter scale measure

• Earthquake magnitude

• Depth of rock layers

• Speed of seismic waves

• Distance from the earthquake epicentre

What causes tectonic plates to move

• Earthquakes in the crust

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Magnetism on the sea floor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What happens at a transform plate boundary?

• Plates move towards each other

• plates move away from each other

• plates slide past each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seafloor spreading is a process that

• destroys oceanic crust

• occurs at mid-ocean ridges

• causes continents to plow through the seafloor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is Pangaea?

• Large ice sheet

• fern that lives close to the equator

• a supercontinent made of the present day continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Identify the plate boundary

• Oceanic-oceanic convergent

• Oceanic-continental convergent

• Oceanic-oceanic divergent

• Oceanic-continental divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3