3rd Quarter Exam Plate Tectonics

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Plate Boundary

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ____________.

• Ring of Earth
• Ring of Fire
• Ring of Stone
• Ring of Diamond

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ____________________________.

• lava
• magma
• volcano
• earthquake

According to Wegener's theory of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of a solid layer of crust

• the continents do not drift

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• is the theory that describes how Earth’s outer layer is broken up into moving tectonic plates.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is Pangea?

• the name of a German scientist

• the name of a supercontinent that existed 280 mya

• another name for continental drift

• the name of an ancient fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is the process that continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge?

• sudduction

• sea floor spreading

• earthquakes

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• continental drift

• plates

• subduction

• fossils