Earths Dynamic Systems

What is the youngest layer based on relative age?

• Layer R

• Layer H

• Layer B

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What boundary is shown between these tectonic plates?

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

What geoscience process(es) created the Grand Canyon?

• chemical weathering

• weathering and erosion by water

• Erosion by glaciers

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The relative age of layers of rocks or fossils where the youngest ones are at the top and the oldest at the bottom.

• Superposition

• Pangaea

• Relative Dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Alfred Wegener found the same fossils in different continents.

What theory does this support?

• Plate tectonics

• Pangaea

• Continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How are the ocean crusts moving during sea-floor spreading?

• Colliding

• Dividing

• Sliding

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the 3 types of rocks involved in the rock cycle?

• Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic

• Sandstone, shale, basalt

• Dactylic, iambic, spondaic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What are igneous rocks made from?

• Pieces of other rocks that have collected and cemented together

• Molten rock that has cooled

• Mountains that have weathered away

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This rock started as lava that cooled and then was heated and put under pressure over time. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

This rock is made from tiny pieces of other rocks that settled to the bottom of a valley millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1