Plate Motion

What is Earth's outer layer underneath the surface in the image?

• sand and water

• hard solid rock

• sand

• water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What happens when two plates move apart?

• a new plate from underneath fills in the gap created by the plates moving apart

• sand and dirt fill in the gap created by the plates moving apart

• water fills in the gap created by the plates moving apart

• soft, solid rock from underneath the plates rises up and hardens, adding solid rock to the edges of both plates.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

If you took a cross section of a dragon fruit by cutting it vertically, what would the cross section look like?

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The Lystrosaurus fossils can be found in India and South America, which are parts of different plates. This is a land animal that can not swim. What could explain how these fossils got so far apart?

• The plates slowly moved apart as soft solid rock from underneath got added to the edges of the plates over millions of years.

• The plates floated away from each other.

• The plates slowly moved apart as new plates from underneath got added between them over millions of years.

• The plates were sometimes pushed far apart by earthquakes and soft solid rock from underneath got added to the edges of the plates.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Where will geologists find hard, solid rock?

• neither under continents or oceans, because there is sand and water under both.

• neither under continents or oceans, because there is water under both places.

• only under the continents, but not under the oceans.

• under both continents and oceans, because Earth's outer layer is made of hard, solid rock.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What happens when two plates are moving toward each other?

• The plates hit each other and break into pieces making sand.

• One plate goes underneath the other plate into the soft rock below.

• The plates push against each other, making the edges bend upward.

• One plate goes underneath the other plate into the ocean below.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What patterns can you see on this map?

• Earthquakes happen in similar places.

• Earthquakes and volcanoes happen in similar places on plate boundaries.

• Volcanoes happen in similar places.

• Volcanoes and earthquakes happen in this order: volcano, earthquake, volcano, earthquake, and so on.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which terms describe this plate boundary?

• convergent

• divergent

• mid ocean ridge

• trench

• sinking

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which terms describe this plate boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• mid ocean ridge

• trench

• rising

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The plates of the Earth moved

• suddenly.

• gradually.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3