Plate Tectonics Review

Massive pieces of land that are part of the Earth's crust and upper mantle

• Tectonic plates
• Trenches
• Divergent boundary
• Continental shelves

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The deepest part of the ocean; long, narrow ditches

• Tectonic plates
• Trenches
• Divergent boundary
• Continental shelves

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

___________ help explain why Earth is not getting any larger even though the tectonic plates are always moving.

• earthquakes
• subduction zones
• fossils
• volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The OLDEST seafloor is located? 

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge
• Farthest from the mid-ocean ridge

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

True or False : Sea-floor Spreading adds new material to the ocean floor?

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What did scientists use to map the oceans floor?

• Echo-location
• Sonar
• Space Shuttles
• Animals

What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?

• A chain of underwater waterfalls 
• A chain of underwater volcanos
• A chain of underwater mountains
• A chain of underwater rocks

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The oceanic crust _________ when it reaches the continental crust.

• sinks
• rises
• expands

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following scientists developed the hypothesis of Continental Drift?

• Wegener

• Hess

• Einstein

• Churchill

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The three animals, mesosaurus, lystrasaurus, and cynognathus represent what type of evidence that the continents actually moved?

• zoological evidence

• glacial evidence

• evidence of climate change

• fossil evidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1