Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

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Melissa Nelson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the name of the supercontinent that existed over 240 million years ago?
Pangaea
Panthalassa
Mesosaurus
Eurasia
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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
Charles Darwin
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What evidence did Alfred Wegener provide to support the theory of continental drift?
Fossils of mesosaurus
Matching ancient rocks
Similar plants in different continents
All of the above
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What replaced the theory of continental drift?
Plate tectonics
Evolution
Gravity
Climate change
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What are the two layers of the earth where plate tectonics occur?
Lithosphere and asthenosphere
Mantle and core
Crust and lithosphere
Asthenosphere and core
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How fast do tectonic plates move across the earth?
1 centimeter per year
10 centimeters per year
100 centimeters per year
1000 centimeters per year
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the name of colliding plate boundaries?
Convergent boundaries
Divergent boundaries
Transform boundaries
None of the above
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