Plate Tectonics

​ (a)   was proposed by ​ (b)   and suggested that the ​ (c)   are in constant motion.

• Continental drift
• Alfred Wegener
• continents
• Harry Hess
• Seafloor Spreading
• oceans

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, "float" on the ___ .

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• mantle

• granitic rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• continental plates

• crustal plates

• trench plates

• tectonic plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Place each label in the correct category.

Groups:

(a) Continental Crust

,

(b) Oceanic Crust

• younger

• less dense

• basalt

• granite

• thinner

• older

• constantly recycles

• denser

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Match the following

• transform

• 
• convergent

• 
• divergent

• 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Match the following

• neither constructive or destructive

• 
• oceanic crust is destroyed

• 
• new crust is created

• 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

• divergent

• convergent

• continental

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of crusts are involved when one plate subducts beneath another?

• continental and continental

• oceanic and continental

• oceanic and divergent

• continental and convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

• volcanoes

• new crust

• Trenches

• rift valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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