Earth Processes

Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth’s solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface.

• Lithosphere

• Earthquake

• Convection Currents

• Core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.

• Convection Current

• Lithosphere

• Core

• Magma

The thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses. It is generally older and more complex than the oceanic crust.

• Oceanic Crust

• Continental Crust

• Magma

• Inner Core

Which two plates collided with each other to form the Himalayan Mountains?

• Nazca and Eurasia

• Indo-Australian and Eurasian

• North America and Antarctic

• South American and Indo-Australian

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which of these tectonic plate boundaries is most likely to form a volcano.

• a continental plate colliding with a continental plate

• an oceanic plate sliding past a continental plate

• a continental plate sliding past a continental plate

• an oceanic plate colliding into a continental plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which statement best describes why fossils of the same land-dwelling species have been discovered in both South America and Africa?

• The organism migrated to two continents

• The organisms were separated by the formation of new mountain ranges

• The organisms became extinct due to climate change on these continents

• These organisms once lived on one large landmass that later split into two continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A satellite image can help scientist locate the area where two plates have diverged by showing the existence of

• Plateaus

• Mountains

• Rift Valleys

• Grassy Plains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A large, giant supercontinent land mass is called

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• pangaea

• oceanic crust

Cracks or breaks in earth's crust where plates slip past each other

• subduction

• faults

• mid-ocean ridge

• san andreas

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• faults

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3