Plate Tectonics Test
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6th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Tectonic plates:
move slowly
sometimes press against or pull away from each other
sometimes scrape against each other
all of the choices above
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Earth is composed of layers of material with different properties. Which of the following is most likely to contain material that is in constant motion?
inner core
mantle
outer core
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The first person to introduce the idea of the continents moving around the surface of Earth was
Neils Bohr
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wegener
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Earthquakes are vibrations of Earth’s crust. What device is used to measure the size of an earthquake?
barometer
Doppler radar
depth scale
seismograph
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This type of plate boundary is when two plates slide past each other.
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Subductive
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This type of plate boundary is when two plates crash into each other.
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Subductive
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This type of plate boundary is when two plates move apart.
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Subductive
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
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