Categorie Science

Categorie Science

8th Grade

26 Qs

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Categorie Science

Categorie Science

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS1-5

+6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Charles Martinez

FREE Resource

26 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Identify the next step in this sequence of events that occurs in the formation of rock. buried , compacted, heated and___________

buried

recrystallized

eroded

deposited

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was Pangaea? When did it form and when did it break apart? It was

a large, Precambrian shield area of Africa and South America that broke apart early in the Proterozoic

a large ocean that opened in the Triassic and closed in the Paleocene

the super continent that formed in the late Paleozoic and broke apart in Mesozoic

the huge mountain range formed when Africa pushed northward into Europe in Eocene time

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Convection in the upper mantle

magma injection at the spreading boundaries

gravity pulling the plates downward at subduction zones


These are three theorized causes of

glacial melting

high and low ocean tides

movement of the tectonic plates

changing of the climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The process of circular motion in the Earth's mantle that causes the plates of the lithosphere to move is called

convection

conduction

drifting

deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains were once among the tallest in the world, similar in altitude to the Himalaya of today. This would still be the case if not for the process of

( This is a fill in the blank on the RA)

weathering

deposition

HEY GUYS

erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Fossils of a now extinct dinosaur have been found near the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa. The dinosaur could not swim or fly. What does this suggest about the continents of South America and Africa?

A land bridge once connected the continents

Prehistoric man transported the dinosaur between the continents

The continents were once connected

The same type of animals evolved on both continents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

convection currents in Earth's mantle

the gravity of the iron-nickle core

the rotation of the earth

the Moho discontinuity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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