Plate Motion

The team is drilling underground at sites 1 and 2. Where will the team find hard, solid rock?

• They will find hard, solid rock below site 1. At site 2, they will find water and sand.

• They will find hard, solid rock below site 2. At site 1, they will find plants and soil.

• They will find hard, solid rock below both sites.

• They will find hard solid rock at neither of these sites; they will find water below both of them.

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Earth's plates are a __________ solid material.

• Soft

• Hard

• Hard and soft

This diagram shows what happens at a

• convergent plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary?

• transform plate boundary

Convergent plate boundries _________.

• To drift apart

• To move towards each other

• To slip by each other

• To stop

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Divergent boundaries _______

• move in different opposite directions

• To move towards each other

• To slip past something

• To stop

Earth's mantle is a ________ solid material.

• soft

• hard

• hard and soft

Is this model, which 2 landforms occur at a convergent plate boundary?

• trench

• volcano

• channels

• mid ocean ridge

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Which landforms occur at a divergent plate boundary in this model?

• mid ocean ridge

• volcano

• trench

• channel

Fossil remains of Glossopteris (an extinct plant with large leaves) have been discovered in India and Australia. When they were living, all the Glossopteris were located together on land, but now the Glossopteris fossils are separated by an ocean. What could explain how these fossils got so far apart?

• India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates slowly moved apart as new plates from underneath got added between them over millions of years.

• India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates slowly moved far apart as soft, solid rock from underneath got added to the edges of the plates over millions of years.

• India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates floated away from each other across the ocean.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Mesasaurs fossils can be found in which 2 locations?

• South America

• Africa

• North America

• Asia

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