Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

6th Grade

15 Qs

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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS1-5

+3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Melissa Nelson

Used 7+ times

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

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

Tags

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

Tags

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

Tags

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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