Continental Drift & Seafloor Spreading Test Review

Continental Drift & Seafloor Spreading Test Review

6th Grade

20 Qs

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Continental Drift & Seafloor Spreading Test Review

Continental Drift & Seafloor Spreading Test Review

Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th Grade

Easy

NGSS
MS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS1-5, MS-ESS2-1

+5

Standards-aligned

Created by

Sharon Kranenberg

Used 72+ times

FREE Resource

20 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the 200 million-year-old supercontinent?

Gondwanaland

Pangea

Laurasia

Pangea Ultimate

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many major plates are there?

7

5

2

1

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is known for creating the Continental Drift hypothesis?

Harry Hess

Alfred Wegener

Albert Einstein

Isaac Newton

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the theory of continental drift state?

The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents.

Continents are stationary and do not move.

The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time.

The continents are disappearing a centimeter each year.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

Glacier scars and evidence from temperature

Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

Mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

Wegener made observations and created his theory

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

Africa and North America

South America and Europe

South America and Africa

Antartica and Africa

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Scientists today believe that there have been several supercontinents like Pangaea and more will eventually form.

yes

no

maybe

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

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