What are Plate Tectonics?

What are Plate Tectonics?

Assessment

Interactive Video

Mathematics

3rd Grade

Easy

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Tiare Tatum

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the supercontinent that existed over 240 million years ago?

Gondwana

Eurasia

Laurasia

Pangaea

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

Albert Einstein

Alfred Wegener

Isaac Newton

Charles Darwin

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the single ocean that surrounded Pangaea?

Indian Ocean

Panthalassa

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What concept replaced the theory of continental drift?

Evolution

Relativity

Plate Tectonics

Gravity

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do tectonic plates move?

By wind

By water currents

By the Earth's rotation

By temperature and pressure in the asthenosphere