TEST Lesson 1 Plate Motion and Lesson 2 Plate Tectonics

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

• continental plates
• trench plates
• crustal plates
• tectonic plates

What type of plate boundary has 2 plates moving towards each other

• divergent
• convergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What plate boundary has 2 plates move away from each other

• divergent
• convergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What plate boundary has 2 plates move past each other in opposite directions?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following explains how Mount Everest formed?

• The mountain formed from volcanic activity at a divergent boundary
• The mountain formed from when two tectonic plates collided at a convergent boundary
• The mountain formed from volcanic activity at a convergent boundary
• The mountain formed as a result of an earthquake when two plates slipped past each other

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Ava has read about continental drift and that it had now become a theory. What information caused the hypothesis of continental drift to become a theory?

• observation that the ocean floor plates appear to be stable and unchanging
• observations that the lithosphere is broken apart and these plates have no boundaries
• observations that explain movements of plates in the lithosphere and predict what happens when they meet
• observations that Earth appears to have plates with boundaries that are moving

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Corey was watching water boil and thought about how he had learned about how Earth's plates move. Both boiling water and tectonic plates move due to

• Conduction
• Sea Floor Spreading
• Convection Currents
• Ocean Trench Movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What determines how the plates interact at their boundaries?

• the materials the plates are made of
• the difference in thickness of the plates
• the kind of plates they are and whether they keep moving
• the kind of boundary and the directions in which the plates are moving

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

• divergent
• continental
• convergent
• transform

What types of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?

• continental and continental
• oceanic and divergent
• oceanic and continental
• continental and convergent