Plate Tectonics Final

​ (a)   was proposed by ​ (b)   and suggested that the ​ (c)   are in constant motion.

• Continental drift
• Alfred Wegener
• continents
• Harry Hess
• Seafloor Spreading
• oceans

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, "float" on the ___ .

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• mantle

• granitic rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The earth's outer shell is divided into slabs of rock called ______ .

• continental plates

• crustal plates

• trench plates

• tectonic plates

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What is a driving force behind the movement of the plates?

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Place each label in the correct category.

Groups:

(a) Continental Crust

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(b) Oceanic Crust

• recycles

• less dense

• older

• scarcely floats

• thicker

• younger

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Match the following

• divergent

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• convergent

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• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Label the ages of the oceanic crust.

a

b

Younger crust

Continental crust

Older crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

• divergent

• convergent

• continental

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?

• continental and continental

• Oceanic and continental

• oceanic and oceanic

• continental and convergent

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What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

• volcanoes

• new crust

• Trenches

• rift valley

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