Tectonic Plate Test

About 260 million years ago, Earth's continents moved together to form the supercontinent called

• Cambria

• Panthalassa

• Pangaea

• Rodinia

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the theory which stated a single large landmass broke into smaller landmasses and formed the continents, which moved to their present locations?

• plate movement

• continental shift

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following discoveries is evidence supporting the idea of continental drift?

• the discovery of sea-floor rock patterns due to magnetic reversals

• the discovery of matching plant and animal fossils found on different continents

• the discovery that rock age increases as distance from mid-ocean ridges increases

• the discovery that most earthquakes are near plate boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are long mountain ranges that divide the sea floor as magma rises and is placed onto Earth's surface called?

• ocean trenches

• subduction zones

• mid ocean ridges

• magnetic poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What would be the cause of volcanic islands in the middle of an ocean?

• subduction

• hot spots

• folding

• rifting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Where does there tend to be a great amount of volcanic activity?

• near magnetic fields

• along seashores

• at high elevations

• near plate boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Oceanic crust

• is more dense than continental crust.

• is less dense than continental crust.

• has the same density as continental crust.

• none of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This famous transform fault is located in the western United States creates significant earthquake activity for California

• Sierra Nevada Seismic Zone

• Denali Fault

• San Fransisco

• San Andreas

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another

• at all plate boundaries

• when plates diverge

• at transform boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary