Plate Tectonics II

What causes tectonic plates to move along the Earth's surface?

• wind
• ocean currents
• convection in the mantle
• expansion of the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley
• mountain
• mid-ocean ridge
• trench

What is the process in which hot molten rock rises, then cools and sinks back to the core?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• convection
• divergence

What is happening at point B?

• subduction
• a divergent boundary
• convection
• an earthquake

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

The once super continent was called

• super continent

• Pangaea

• world mass

Long chains of mountains formed on the ocean floor are called 

• subduction
• sea chains
• mid-ocean ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where are earthquakes MOST LIKELY to occur?

• close to the equator
• close to the center of tectonic plates
• along coastal regions
• along the boundaries of tectonic plates
  

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which of the following is NOT evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics?

• Fossils
• Mountains
• Glaciers
• Sand Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which process adds more crust to the ocean floor?

• suction

• sea-floor spreading

• subduction

• magnetic strip