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Plate Tectonics Test

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Plate Tectonics Test
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

¿Cuál es la teoría que sostiene que la capa exterior de la Tierra está dividida y se mueve a través de la superficie terrestre?

corriente de convección

tectónica de placas

litosfera

deriva continental

fósiles

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

¿Qué ocurre en un límite divergente entre dos placas tectónicas?

Dos placas se mueven una hacia la otra, formando montañas.

Dos placas se deslizan una junto a la otra, causando terremotos.

Dos placas se alejan una de la otra, creando nueva corteza.

Dos placas permanecen estacionarias, sin causar actividad geológica.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

¿Cuál es la capa de la Tierra donde se encuentran las placas tectónicas?

Litosfera

Núcleo externo

Manto

Núcleo interno

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What happens when an oceanic plate meets a continental plate at a plate boundary?

The oceanic plate slides past the continental plate, forming a fault line.
The oceanic plate sinks beneath the continental plate, forming a trench & volcanoes.
The oceanic plate and the continental plate move apart, creating new seafloor.
Both plates remain stationary, forming no significant geological features.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Which of the following provides evidence for past plate motions?

Matching rock type & rock formations can show the way the continents were once attached.
Glaciers were found where they couldn't exist if continents were in their current locations.
Matching fossils can show that landmasses were once connected.
All of the above.

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

True or False: There is an idea or theory that the large masses of land all over Earth were at one time all connected as the Pangaea, or supercontinent.

True
False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Antes de que hubiera evidencia de rocas y fósiles, muchos científicos teorizaron que los continentes estuvieron una vez unidos. Usando solo mapas, estos científicos observaron que -

las formas de los continentes les permitían encajar entre sí.

la meteorización y la erosión han remodelado la superficie de la Tierra.

los continentes estaban bordeados por cadenas montañosas.

los océanos se han vuelto más pequeños a lo largo de la historia de la Tierra.

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