PLATE TECTONICS

What evidence helped Wegener determine that the continents were once joined?

Choose all that apply.

• Shape of continents

• Similar climates across oceans

• Similar landforms and plants across oceans

• Same fossils across multiple continents

• The age of the ocean floor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What evidence helped scientists determine that the continents were once joined?

• The age of the ocean floor at ocean rifts

• Magma and convection currents

• Similar marine life across oceans

• Weather patterns across continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where do most volcanoes and earthquakes occur?

• In the middle of tectonic plates

• At plate boundaries

• On the edge of continents

• In the oceans

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Diverging tectonic plates are

• Sliding past each other horizontally

• Moving away from each other

• Moving toward each other

Converging tectonic plates are

• Sliding past each other horizontally

• Moving away from each other

• Moving toward each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Transform tectonic plates are

• Sliding past each other horizontally

• Moving away from each other

• Moving toward each other

Which landform or event can can occur at a CONVERGENT: continental to continental plate boundary?

• Mountain

• Rift Valley

• Glacier

• Ocean Trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which landform or event can can occur at a CONVERGENT: continental to oceanic plate boundary?

• River Trench

• Tsunami

• Volcanic Mountain

• Fold Mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which landform or event can can occur at a CONVERGENT: oceanic to oceanic plate boundary?

• Ocean Trench

• Great Lakes

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Earthquake

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which landform or event can can occur at a DIVERGENT: continental to continental plate boundary?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Ocean Trench

• Volcanic Island

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3