Tectonic Plates

On which tectonic plate is Texas located? 

• Eurasian

• African

• South American

• North American

What plate are India and Australia a part of?

• Eurasian

• Indo-Australian

• Antarctic

• African

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What does number 1 on the diagram above represent?

• African Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• Pacific Plate

• North American Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into tectonic plates. The lithosphere is less dense than the underlying asthenosphere allowing movement of the tectonic plates. Which of the following explains how plate tectonics causes the formation of the mid-ocean ridge (underwater mountain range) in the model above?

• winds in the atmosphere

• melting in the lithosphere

• convection currents in the ocean

• convection currents in the mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Plate tectonics is the study of the lithosphere, the outer portion of the earth consisting of the crust and part of the upper mantle. The lithosphere is divided into large plates which move and interact with one another to create earthquakes, mountain ranges, volcanic eruptions, and ocean basins. The theory of plate tectonics has led scientists to believe the supercontinent Pangaea existed over 200 million years ago. Evidence of Pangaea includes the presence of fossils of identical species on continents that are now great distances apart. The diagram above shows pictures of Pangaea splitting into the Earth’s current continents. Which of the following places the pictures in order from Pangaea to the Earth’s current continents?

• T, S, R, Q

• T, R, Q, S

• S, Q, R, T

• Q, R, T, S

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The cross section compares the densities of the Earth’s layers. Which of the following is a valid conclusion based on the cross section diagram?

• The convection currents keep the tectonic plates from shifting or moving.

• Earth's core has about 4 times more density than Earth's continental crust.

• The densities of the outer core and inner core are equal.

• Earth's core is less dense than the continental and oceanic crust.

Which of the following is located at the plate numbered 3?

• North America

• South America

• Africa

• Pacific Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Movement between the Pacific and the North American plate create the San Andreas Fault in California. What type of boundary occurs between those two plates?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

• Trench Forming

The boundaries between the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate experience both divergence and convergence.  What type of geological event occurs heavily along the Pacific and Eurasian plate 

      boundaries?

• mountain formation

• rift valleys

• volcanoes

• trees

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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What kind of geological event would you expect to form as the two continental plates continue to move?

• a mountain chain

• volcanoes

• a mid-ocean ridge will form

• an oceanic trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3