Dynamic Earth Moving Continents

Dynamic Earth Moving Continents

8th Grade

23 Qs

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Dynamic Earth Moving Continents

Dynamic Earth Moving Continents

Assessment

Quiz

Other Sciences

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Charles Martinez

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23 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?
The would all increase
The would all decrease.
They would stay the same.  
Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase. 

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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
none of the above

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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Name the boundary
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
sergent boundary

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Media Image
Name the boundary
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
sergent boundary

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Media Image
Name the boundary
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
sergent boundary

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

A subduction zone is formed...
a denser tectonic plate sinks below another
at every type of convergent plate boundary
at every type of divergent plate boundary
at transform boundaries

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's:
Continental crust
Oceanic crust
Mantle 
Lithosphere

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