Science: Lesson 5 Test

What do we call Earth's 7 distinct land regions? *

• tectonic plates

• continents

• crust

What do we call the coming together of tectonic plates? *

• Collision

• Convergence

• Movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When two continental plates collide, what is formed? *

• mountains

• continents

• trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

True or False. The Earth's crust includes dry land and mountains, but not the ocean or ocean floor.

• True

• False

True or False. Rocks are made up of minerals.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What do we call rocks that are formed from magma deep inside the earth? *

• Crystals

• Igneous

• Volcanos

What is sediment? *

• a type of mineral that forms into a crystal

• a solid material that falls to the bottom of a liquid

• a type of rock that morphs from one rock to another through chemical change

True or False. Marble is a type of metamorphic rock.

• True

• False

How are metamorphic rocks formed?

• through chemical changes

• from high pressure

• from temperature changes

The ground we walk on is called

• tectonic plates

• continental crust

• land