Plate Tectonics Assessment

Convection in the mantle is caused by ____

• Heat

• Anger

• Stress

• Magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

¨What are machines called that measure the time seismic waves take to travel various distances from an earthquake’s center?

• Seismometers

• Seismographs

• Epicenter

• Telescopes

What is the boundary at which two tectonic plates separate called?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Sea-floor spreading

New crust in the ocean is a sign of _____

• Sea-floor spreading

• A volcano

• plate tectonics

• An earthquake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The record that the sea floor carries with it that proves the continents are spreading is called what?

• Magnetic reversals

• epic

• plate tectonics

• magma

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When compression breaks a rock layer it makes what kind of fault?

• Reverse

• Normal

• Strike-slip

• Transform

The boundary at which two tectonic plates collide is called a ______

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Normal

When tension breaks a rock layer, it makes what kind of fault?

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike-slip

• Earthquake

What is the world-famous transform plate boundary called?

• San Andreas Fault

• My fault

• Ring of Fire

• Grand Canyon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Mountains formed from eruption of molten rock are called ______

• Volcanic

• Sea-floor spreading

• Folded

• Tall