Major Plate Tectonics

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined
• The sea floor is spreading
• Continents are moving
• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

• America, Greenland, and Europe.
• Antarctica, India, and America.
• all of Earth’s continents.
• South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

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Peer scientists reviewing Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because

• His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion 
• He did not explain how continents move and what moves them
• His evidence was not clear in showing  how continents were joined
• He lied by including false evidence

Where are most divergent boundaries located?

• Along the middle of most ocean floors
• Along the margins of most continents
• Across the middle of many continents
• All the above options are correct

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The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

• Oceanic/Continental
• Oceanic/Oceanic
• Continental/Continental
• None of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

• Radiation in the core
• Conduction in the lithosphere
• Convection in the Asthenosphere
• None of these options is true

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The San Andréa fault in California is one example of a...  

• Divergent boundary
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• All of the above

A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.

• wedge
• plate
• chunk
• fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________.

• Divergent boundary
• Sea-floor spreading
• Convergent boundary
• Renovating 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3