Chapter 7 Overview

_________ is a large landmass

• island
• Continent
• Crust
• Plate tectonics

______ is the point or line where one region ends and another begins.

• Border
• Crust
• Boundary
• Plate tectonics

_______ is the outer layer of Earth

• Crust
• Mantle
• Outer Core
• Inner Core

_______ is the idea that the continents slowly more over Earth's surface.

• Continental motion
• Continental shift
• Continental drift
• Continental forces

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

____________ is the theory that states that Earth's plates are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• Tension
• Crust
• Continental drift
• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

__________ is the act or process of stretching something tight.

• Drift
• Friction
• Shift
• Tension

__________ is a large mass of igneous rock formed deep within the Earth.

• Volcano
• Batholith
• Monolith
• Sill

________ is a supercontinent, or single landmass, about 300 million years ago.

• Pangea
• Eurasia
• Laurasia
• Gondwana

_______ is a trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.

• Subduction
• Fossil
• Deep-ocean trench
• Sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

___________ is a process by which ocean rock sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the deep mantle.

• Induction
• Conduction
• Subduction
• Abduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3