Midterm Review ('24-25)

Location D is located at which coordinates?

• 30^oN, 90^oW

• 90^oN, 30^oW

• 10^oN, 40^oW

• 30^oN, 90^oE

Which side is steeper?

• The left side of the hill

• The right side of the hill

How many mountains are in this picture?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What was Wegener’s continental drift idea?

• The continents have moved slowly apart to their current locations.

• The continents have always been located at their current locations.

• The continents are moving slowly together from their current locations.

• None of these

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time
• Continents are stationary and do not move
• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents
• none of the above

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What forms when 2 continental plates collide?

• folded mountains

• volcanoes

• geysers

• new ocean crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What location would you find igneous rocks?

• near the foot of mountains

• near a volcano

• near any plate tectonic

• where ever an earthquake happens

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the source of energy that drives plate movement?

• the subducton of the sea floor

• the different densities of the oceanic and crustal plates

• convection currents in the asthenosphere

• the friction force between the plates that move past each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• neither

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3