Plate Tectonics Leap

What is Pangea?

• It is a fruit from South East Asia

• The first name of the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory

• The name given to the supercontinent proposed as the single landmass

• The first species of flower on earth.

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Subduction is when:

• Two tectonic plates slide past each other

• A plate sinks beneath a plate with continental crust

• a tectonic acts like a duck and jumps underneath the water level

• Two plates move apart from one another

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What is an example of a transform boundary?

• That Dwayne Johnson movie thing

• Mount Everest

• The West coast China

• San Andreas Fault

What are the four layers of the Earth?

• Crust, Mantle, Inner Crust, Outer Crust

• Crust, Mantle, Pizza Crust, Inner Crust

• Never, Gonna, Give, You, Up

• Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

Which way do transform plate boundary move?

• Up

• Down

• Horizontally

• It does a flip

Divergent plate boundaries

• Have magma push them away from each other

• Float together

• Move parallel to each other

• Crush each other

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Which of the following cannot be formed at a convergent plate boundary?

• Mountain

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

• Ocean trenches

• Magma pools

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which of the following is the best definition for a dormant volcano?

• Is a volcano that is erupting

• Is an active volcano that is not erupting and could erupt

• Is a lazy volcano that does not has yet woken up yet

• Is an active volcano that has not erupted in the past 10,000 years.

What does the Mercalli scale describe?

• The intensity of mercury in the earth

• The intensity Mercalli would need to study to be able predict an earthquake

• The intensity of an earthquake based the monetary damage

• The intensity of an earthquake based on it's observed effects