ES3 Final Review

What is a better model of the earth?

• picture

• globe

• map

• map or globe, depends on how it will be used

Which of the following was NOT one of Wegener's pieces of evidence for continental drift?

• fit of continents

• animal and plant fossils

• antarctic climate change

• sea floor spreading

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Where are the greatest concentration of volcanoes?

• in the oceans

• on the edges of continents in higher elevations

• in the middle of continents

• on tectonic plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is true about Earth's plates?

• Plates fit close together, edges touching one another

• Plates vary in size.

• Plates move on the softened layer of mantle below the crust.

• all are true

When two continental plates converge (move together), what happens?

• bending and folding of hard plate material

• plates break and separate forming new plates

• islands form from large pieces breaking off

• large pieces, the size of large houses break off

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is happening in this picture?

• seafloor spreading

• new plate material is forming

• two plates are pulling apart

• all are correct

What happens when a continental plate and oceanic plate converge (come together)?

• the oceanic plate is pushed downward (subducted)

• the continental plate is pushed downward (subducted)

• both plates will have uplift

• oceanic plates and continental plates never interact

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is true about Earth's plates?

• They only move when the solid layer of rock below them melts and moves.

• They move by floating on a layer of completely melted rock below them.

• They move along with the layer of slightly softened rock below them.

• They do not move because they are on top are solid rock.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is NOT TRUE about mountains?

• Mountains have been continuously developing since Earth formed.

• Mountains are still developing today.

• All mountains on Earth today were present when Earth formed.

• Mountains form at convergent boundaries.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is needed for a scientific explanation?

• claim

• evidence

• reasoning

• all are needed

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5