plate tectonics

Identify this type of plate movement

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

    __________       describes the large scale movement of the Earth’s lithosphere.

• Crust Displacement

• Mantle Movement

• Plate Tectonic

• None

This scientist was the first to develop the idea of continental drift.

• Wegener

• Einstein

• Copernicus

• Hawking

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Identify this type of plate movement

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Around 200 – 250 million years ago ______ started to break into separate plates. 

• Oceans

• China

• Pangea

• None

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Two plates moving or sliding by each other.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

Two plates collide

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Identify this type of plate movement

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Mantle

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What geological forces might be responsible for this range of mountains?

• diverging tectonic plates
• erosion of the land by the ocean
• converging tectonic plates
• deposition of sediments by the ocean
  

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3