PLATE TECTONICS

Anika, Avery, and Luna are on a time-travel adventure! They land millions of years ago and see all the continents joined together. What was the name of this supercontinent?

• Eurasia

• Pangaea

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

James and Emma are having a debate in class about who first proposed the theory of continental drift. Can you help them settle the argument?

• Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wegener

• James Hutton

Lily and Rohan are debating about continental drift in science class. What are two pieces of evidence they could use to support their argument?

• A. Earthquake patterns and fossils

• B. Fossils and matching coastlines

• C. Volcanoes and storms

• D. Oceans and clouds

Nora, Evelyn, and Grace are on a science adventure! They want to know: What mysterious force allows giant tectonic plates to move beneath our feet?

• Wind currents

• Sea level rise

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Magnetic force

Arjun, Michael, and Abigail are on a submarine adventure! They want to know: how thick is an oceanic plate beneath their submarine?

• 5–10 km

• 30–50 km

• 70–100 km

• 100–200 km

Benjamin and Ava are exploring plate boundaries in their science class. They reach a convergent boundary. What do they discover forming there?

• A. Mid-ocean ridges

• B. Earthquakes only

Grace and William are exploring the ocean floor when they notice two oceanic plates heading straight for each other! What exciting things might they witness when these plates collide?

• Volcanoes form

• Earthquakes happen

• One subducts under the other

• All of the above

Charlotte and Rohan are on a geology adventure! They wonder: What amazing event happens when two giant continental plates crash into each other?

• Trenches form

• Volcanoes erupt

• Mountains form

• The plates melt

Grace and David are exploring the ocean floor in a submarine. They notice something interesting happening at the mid-ocean ridges. What is sea floor spreading?

• The destruction of plates

• New crust forming at mid-ocean ridges

• Ocean water rising

• Plates sliding past each other

During a geology adventure, Anika, Nora, and Daniel are exploring tectonic plates. What is subduction?

• A. A plate rising above another

• B. Plates colliding and spreading

• C. One plate sinking below another

• D. Plates melting together