Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

This evidence shows ancient animals lived on several continents, even though they are an ocean apart.

• Mountain Range Evidence

• Glacial Evidence

• Fossil Evidence

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The earth's outer shell is divided into slabs of rock called ______ .

• continental plates

• crustal plates

• trench plates

• tectonic plates

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Match the following

• convergent

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• divergent

• 
• transform

• 

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What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

• volcanoes

• new crust

• Trenches

• rift valley

What is the WHOLE AREA called where the oceanic crust goes beneath the continental crust?

• subtraction zone

• section zone

• secondary zone

• subduction zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, are part of the ___ .

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• mantle

• granitic rock

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When Wegener found that the fossils of the same types of plants and animals were found on continents separated by oceans it made him think that

• plants & animals could cross large oceans.

• they were put their by wizards.

• the land was all joined together in the past.

• dinosaurs most likely lived only on land

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1