Evidence of Plate Tectonics

Which layer of Earth flows slowly and causes the crust to move?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer core

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What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley

• mountain

• mid-ocean ridge

• trench

What is Wegener's idea that continents are slowly moving over Earth's surface called?

• divergence

• faults

• plates

• continental drift

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Which of the following does NOT provide evidence for the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

• Similar fossils found on different continents

• Continents seem to fit together

• Traces of glacial activity found on different continents

• Different types of rocks found on different continents

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The diagram illustrates that

• seafloor spreading occurs at a convergent boundary

• the oldest oceanic crust is located far from where the plates are separating

• the continents are slowly moving toward each other

• the youngest oceanic crust is located far from where it is separating

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which geological force might be responsible for creating a mountain range?

• diverging tectonic plates

• transforming tectonic plates

• converging tectonic plates

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Alfred Wegener's early theory of continental drift helped provide evidence to support

• paleomagnetic reversals

• survival of the fittest

• the theory of plate tectonics

• superposition

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The volcanoes located on the Ring of Fire are most likely caused by

• seafloor spreading

• a transform boundary

• a subduction zone

• metamorphism

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Which best describes this diagram?

• divergent boundary

• subduction zone

• transform boundary

• volcanic islands forming

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The source of energy that drives or causes tectonic plate movement is

• convection currents in the mantle

• subduction of oceanic crust

• plates grinding past one another

• slab pull

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