Tectonic Plate Movement Quiz

What are the mechanisms that drive tectonic plate movement?

• Oceanic Ridge, Convection Current, Trench suction

• Continents move apart, Continents move together, Mantle Core

• Magma rises, Plate pushed, Plate pulled

• Mantle convection, Ridge push, Slab pull

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is mantle convection?

• Semi-molten rock cooling and sinking

• Convection currents in the semi-molten mantle

• Heat generated by radioactive decay in the core

• Semi-molten rock becoming less dense and rising

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

How do convection currents cause plate movements?

• Semi-molten rock spreads out carrying the plates

• Semi-molten rock cools and becomes more dense

• Semi-molten rock becomes less dense and rises

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is ridge push?

• Plate pushed by the weight of a mid-ocean ridge

• Magma rising and cooling to form new plate material

• Plate pulled by the weight of its cold, dense subducting section

• Plate sinking back into the mantle under gravity

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What is slab pull?

• Plate pulled by the weight of its cold, dense subducting section

• Plate pushed by the weight of a mid-ocean ridge

• Plate sinking back into the mantle under gravity

• Magma rising and cooling to form new plate material

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What causes continents to move apart?

• Mantle convection

• Slab pull

• Ridge push

• Oceanic Trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What causes continents to move together?

• Oceanic Trench

• Slab pull

• Ridge push

• Mantle convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the process of mantle convection?

• All of the above

• Semi-molten rock becoming less dense and rising

• Semi-molten rock spreading out carrying the plates

• Semi-molten rock cooling and sinking

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is the process of ridge push?

• Plate pushed by the weight of a mid-ocean ridge

• Plate sinking back into the mantle under gravity

• Magma rising and cooling to form new plate material

• Plate pulled by the weight of its cold, dense subducting section

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the process of slab pull?

• Magma rising and cooling to form new plate material

• Plate pushed by the weight of a mid-ocean ridge

• Plate pulled by the weight of its cold, dense subducting section

• Plate sinking back into the mantle under gravity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1