CKLA 4th Grade Geology Unit 5 14.1 Questions

Match the following cause with it's effect

Seamounts emerge from the ocean's surface

• islands are formed

• condintental drift

• seafloor spreads

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CCSS.RI.4.5

Match the following cause with it's effect

One tectonic plate slides under another in the ocean

• islands form

• a trench is formed

• hydrothermal vents form

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Match the following cause with it's effect

Tectonic plates move apart very slowly

• hydrothermal vents form

• mountains form

• the seafloor spreads

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CCSS.RI.4.5

Match the following cause with it's effect

The seafloor spreads

• causing continental drift

• causing islands to form

• creating great waves

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CCSS.RI.4.5

On page 84 the author uses a simile when he says that the "mountain chain formed by mid-ocean ridges is like the stitching on a baseball."

What does the simile mean?

• the mountains are hard like a baseball

• the mountain chain goes all around the earth just like the red stitches on baseballs

• the mountain chain is red like the stitching on a baseball

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CCSS.L.4.5A

Which of these animals can be found near hydrothermal vents? Choose 3

• white crabs

• schools of fish

• girant tube worms

• football sized clams

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CCSS.RI.4.1

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Which of these animals would you find near seamounts? Choose 3

• blind shrimp

• deep sea corals

• brittle stars

• sponges

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CCSS.RI.4.1

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Why do white crabs, blind shrimp, giant tube worms, and football sized clams live near hydrothermal vents?

• they art trapped by the vents and can't go anywhere else

• the temperature and the mineral rich water are just right for these creatures to live

• these creatures hide from their enemies near the vents for protection

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CCSS.RI.4.1

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Why do sponges, schools of fish, brittle sea stars, and deep sea corals live near seamounts?

• The seamount areas provide food that these creatures need to survive

• Seamounts are the best hiding places for these creatures

• They were born there and they don't want to leave.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

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CCSS.RI.4.8