PLATE TECTONICS

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• CONTINENTAL DRIFT

• SEAFLOOR SPREADING

• PLATE BOUNDERIES

• CONVECTION CURRENTS

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Forms where plates are moving away from each other is called _______.

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding.

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

• Panthalassa

• Pangea

Tectonic plates consist of____.

• Continental crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Both continental and oceanic

• Asthenosphere

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The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of____.

• magnetic reversal

• continental drift

• seafloor spreading

• oceanic drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by______.

• convection currents

• rotation of the Earth

• movement of materials in the outer core

• revolution of the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that____

• the oceanic crust is melting.

• volcanic islands are forming.

• the denser oceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

• the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______

• convection

• subduction

• continental drift

• conduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What happens when mountain ranges are formed?

• converging two continental crust

• converging two oceanic crust

• diverging two continental crust

• diverging two oceanic crust

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