(E8) Review for Quiz #2 (Lessons 2 & 3)

A seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea floor spreading

• deep oceanic trenches

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which rocks are younger?

• closest to the mid-ocean ridge

• farthest away from the mid-ocean ridge

• rocks at the deep ocean trenches

• rocks being subducted

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The process by which the ocean basin spreads apart along both sides of a mid-ocean ridge as new crust is added.

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea floor spreading

• deep oceanic trenches

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Rocks on the sea-floor that lie in a pattern show a record of the reversals of Earth's _____.

• poles

• magnetic field

• deep ocean trenches

• subduction

Long, narrow depressions on the seafloor.

• mid-ocean ridge

• Pangaea

• deep oceanic trenches

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where does Sea-Floor spreading occur?

• deep ocean trenches

• mid-ocean ridges

• subduction

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The gradual movement of the continents across the Earth’s surface through geological time.

• mid-ocean ridge

• Pangaea

• subduction

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

• fossil

• Pangaea

• subduction

• continental drift

Choose all of the pieces of evidence that support the Theory of Continental Drift.

• Animal and plant fossils

• Fit of continents

• Rock sequences

• Glacial evidence

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

A remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in Earth’s crust.

• fossil

• Pangaea

• subduction

• sonar

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2