Unit 4 Earth Structures and Processes

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

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Pangea

• Subduction Zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Tectonic boundary type where plates are sliding past each other

• Intraplate

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic boundary type where plates are moving toward each other

• Intraplate

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic boundary type where plates are moving away from each other

• Intraplate

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these is evidence of seafloor spreading?

• Continuous Mountain Ranges

• Magnetic Reversal or the Zebra Effect

• Correlation of Rock Layers

• None of these answers are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these is evidence of seafloor spreading?

• Continuous Mountain Ranges

• Crust /Rock Age

• Correlation of Rock Layers

• None of these answers are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What technology was used durring WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the sealoor?

• GPS

• Sonar

• Radar

• X-Rays

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Theory that magma rises to surface at mid-ocean ridge & cools to form new seafloor

• Seafloor Spreading

• Volcanoes

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Hawaiian volcanoes and the Yellowstone super-volcano are hotspot volcanoes. Hotspots are found___.

• at convergent plates

• at transform boundaries

• within a plate (intraplate)

• at divergent boundaries

What are the two types of crust?

• lower and upper

• ocean and upper

• continental and oceanic

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