Tectonic Plates and Boundaries

All the continents were together in one large land mass referred to as _.

• Oceania

• Pangea

• Land O'Lakes

• Atlantia

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which layer of the Earth is the thinnest?

• Crust

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Mantle

What is the Mohorovicic discontinuity?

• The boundary between the inner and outer core

• The boundary between the outer core and the mantle

• The boundary between the crust and the mantle

The huge pieces of the earth's crust are called ____________________________. 

• crust
• plates
• directions
• seismos

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Choose all that are true about Tectonic Plates

• Lithosphere is made up of large tectonic plates

• The tectonic plates have been moving for 3-4 billion years

• The idea of continental drift developed during the early 20th century

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of boundary is shown here?

• Transform Fault

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Subduction Zone

Which type of boundary is this?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Tsunami

• Transform Fault

What type of boundary is this?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform Fault

• Subduction Zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following can occur at a subduction zone? (choose all that apply)

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Trenches

• Mid-ocean ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

You would find mountains formed at

• Convergent boundaries

• Divergent boundaries

• Subduction boundaries

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1