Continental Drift Quiz

Order the pictures of Pangaea from oldest to present day.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Match the following

• Climate Clues

• Plant and animal evidence found on continents seperated by oceans

• Rock clues

• Hardened magma of the same chemistry and age

• Continental shape clues

• Glacier grooves match up on neighboring continents

• Fossil clues

• Continents seem to fit together like puzzle pieces

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The navy officer who discovered that the middle of the Atlantic ocean had a mountain range

• Harry Hens

• Henry Hess

• Henry Hens

• Harry Hess

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these rock layers is relatively the newest?

• Kaibab formation
• Zoraster Granite
• Redwall limestone
• Unkar group

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

According to the law of superposition, the oldest fossils are found 

• At the top of the rock layers
• Near the bottom of the rock layers
• In the middle of the rock layers
• Somewhat near the surface

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Youngest rock layers are found on the _________ .

• bottom

• top

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Rock layers are called __________.

• data

• cake

• strata

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which layer is the youngest?

• Layer A

• Layer B

• LAyer C

• Layer D

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

How tightly or loosely packed the molecules of a substance are:

• density

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Transfer of thermal energy caused by the rising of hotter less dense fluids and the sinking of cooler more dense fluids:

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• density

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6