Earth Science NGSS Benchmark

The presence of the same ______ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift.

• a. rocks

• b. fossils

• c. nether a nor b

• d. both a and b

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental drift states that continents moved _________ to their current location.

• slowly

• quickly

• very little

• vertically

The crust and the upper mantle make up Earth's ______.

• Continents

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Core

They hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called _______.

• Magnetic reversal

• Convection

• Continental drift

• Continental slope

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates move apart at _______ boundaries.

• Convergent

• Transform

• Stable

• Divergent

Plates slide past one another at _____.

• Subduction zone

• Transform boundaries

• Convection currents

• Divergent boundaries

The boundary between two plates moving together is called a _______.

• Lithosphere

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

______ are formed when two continental plates collide.

• Mountain ranges

• Volcanoes

• Strike slip faults

• Rift valleys

A _______ forms where two oceanic plates collide.

• Transform boundary

• Hot spot

• Subduction zone

• Rift valley

Most earthquakes happen_______.

• Without warning

• In areas where earthquakes have occurred in the past

• Along plate boundaries

• All of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2