Plate Tectonics and Earth's Movement

This photo represents a ____ plate boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Pointy

This photo represents a ____ plate boundary

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Magnetic

This photo represents a ____ plate boundary

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Sliders

The cause of plate movement is due to

• Magma convection in the mantle

• The crust has little feet that walk along the mantle

• Telepathy

• The core moves them from deep inside the earth

Select three ways we know that the plates of the earths crust move

• Fossil Records and types of fossils found

• Continents match up like puzzle pieces

• Rock records match where continents line up

• The earth is actually solid and doesn't move at all

How long ago did Pangea start to break up?

• 6 billion years ago

• 200 million years ago

• 700 million years ago

• 65 million years ago

New seafloor being added from the divergent plates moving away from each other results in what?

• New Seafloor/ lithosphere floor crust being added to the earth.

• new mountains

• hurricanes and cyclones

• extreme flooding

What boundary creates mountains?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• fast

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which transform plate boundary is located very close to us?

• Mid Atlantic Ridge

• Mariana Trench

• San Andreas Fault

• Pacific Rim

Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth
• ocean tides
• convection currents in the mantle
• the moon's gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3