The Dynamic Earth
Authored by JENNA POWELL
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9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Many early mapmakers thought Earth’s continents had moved based on...
Fossil evidence
Matching coastlines
Climatic data
Plate boundary locations
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because ____________.
the continents were too big to move across Earth's crust.
Wegner couldn't explain why or how the continents had moved.
there wasn't enough convection in Earth's mantle.
data gathered by new instruments proved the theory incorrect.
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Compared to ocean crust near deep-sea trenches, crust near ocean ridges is ____________.
magnetically reversed.
older.
younger.
the same age.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is ____________.
different than rocks on land.
at a right angle to the ocean ridge.
a mirror image of the other side.
younger than the other side.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The magnetic pattern on the seafloor is
a. a mirror image of that of the other side.
b. at right angles to the ocean ridge.
c. much different from the magnetic pattern found in rocks on land.
d. younger than on the other side.
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
NGSS.HS-ESS2-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Ischron maps of the seafloor indicate that ocean crust is
a. Oldest near ocean ridges
b. Thinnest in subduction zones
c. Youngest near ocean ridges
d. Youngest at deep-sea trenches
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Each cycle of spreading and intrusion of magma during seafloor spreading results in
plates colliding
new ocean crust
subduction
magnetic reversal
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
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