Tectonic Plates & Volcanoes

This German scientist proposed the hypothesis behind the idea that all the continents fit together like a puzzle:

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Thomas Edison

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The hypothesis of __________ __________ states that the continents were joined to make a super continent.

• subduction

• tectonic plates

• continental drift

• seafloor spreading

The super-continent that is theorized to be all of the continents joined together is called

• Convergent

• Seafloor Spread

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The _______ consists of all of the crust as well as the upper, rigid part of the mantle.

• lithosphere

• atmosphere

• hemisphere

• inner core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Earth's lithosphere is broken up into pieces called _________ __________.

• Pangaea

• tectonic plates

• boundaries

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Places where two plates meet are called __________.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• boundaries

A ________ boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other.

• subduction

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

This type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates divide away from each other.

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

• seafloor

_________ ________ is the forming of new oceanic crust forming as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies.

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• transform boundary

• inner core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

_________ occurs when two plates collide and one plate moves under the other and sinks into the mantle.

• divergent

• subduction

• continental drift

• tectonic plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2