What is the difference between the lithosphere and asthenosphere that makes up the mantle?

The lithosphere is made of solid rock while the asthenosphere is more flexible hot rock that moves.

The lithosphere is ismade of dense solid meal whle the asthenosphere is made of liquid molten metal

The lithosphere is a mixture of gasses while the asthenosphere is made of solid rock

The lithosphere is molten rock that moves while the asthenosphere is ridid and thin

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

The Earth's magnetic pole flips

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...

America, Greenland, and Europe.

Antarctica, India, and America.

South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.

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

He did not explain how continents move and what moves them

His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion

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

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

Convection in the Asthenosphere

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

Convection currents in the mantle

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

New crust is underwater where it sinks

New crust breaks more easily than old crust

Mountains are created when....

An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

Two continental plates pull apart

A subduction zone is formed...

when one tectonic plate sinks below another

at every type of convergent plate boundary

at every type of divergent plate boundary

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

What is represented by the picture?

How the continents are arranged today

What happens when Subduction occurs?

Parts of the crust fall into the mantle

Parts of the crust fall into the core

Parts of the crust fall into space

Plate Tectonics

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

Tectonic plates

Puzzles

Earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

Core

Mantle

Crust

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ____________________________.

lava

magma

volcano

earthquake

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

New Madrid

Denali Fault

Ramapo Seismic Zone

San Andreas Fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

Divergent

Convergent

Slide/Transform

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

Divergent

Convergent

Slide/Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ____________________________.

This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other is called

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A Plate Boundary where two plates move toward each other is called

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