Unit 4 Test: Plates, Volcanoes and Earthquakes

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

___________ currents in the Earth's asthenosphere cause plate to shift at their boundaries. This movement also causes earthquakes and volcanic activity.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Peer scientists reviewing Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because

• His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion 
• He did not explain how continents move and what moves them
• His evidence was not clear in showing  how continents were joined
• He lied by including false evidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

• Oceanic/Continental
• Oceanic/Oceanic
• Continental/Continental
• None of the above

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What type of features are associated with a divergent boundary?

• Rift valleys
• Volcanic mountains
• Fold mountains
• Fault block mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This is a place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs. (underground)

• epicenter
• focus
• fault
• deformation

These are a series of extremely long waves that can travel across the ocean at speed up to 800 Km/h.

• tsunamis
• tornado
• earthquake
• epicenter

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

This scientist came up with the idea of continental drift. 

• Anthony Minnella
• Alfred Wegener
• Issac Newton 
• Angelo Gentile