Plate Motion Amplify

The pieces that make up Earth's surface are called…?

• Jigsaw puzzle

• Pattern

• Plate boundary

• Tectonic Plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Earthquakes are caused by plate motion. The plates are constantly moving, and this sometimes causes sudden shaking at the surface.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What best describes Earth's mantle?

• Liquid, melted rock below the outer layer.

• The hard, solid rock beneath the plates.

• Liquid, melted rock on which the plates move.

• The soft, solid rock on which the plates move.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which sentence about earth's outer layer is true?

• When the plates of the outer layer move, there are places were the mantle is exposed to the air and water at the surface.

• Although the plates of the outer layer move, the mantle is always above the outer layer and is closer to the air and water at the surface.

• The outer layer is always made up of hard solid rock. The mantle is always below the outer layer, and is not exposed to the surface.

• The outer layer is sometimes made of hard solid rock, and sometimes made of soft solid rock. It depends on how much magma is rising up from the mantle.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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​ ​ an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Oceanic plateau

• Submarine hill

• Trench ridge

​ the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement

• volcanism

• compression

• rifting

• subduction

​ the place where two plates meet

• crustal boundary

• plate boundary

• seismic zone

• fault line

​ a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together

• Ridge

• Canyon

• Valley

• Trench

An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.

• trench

• coral reef

• continent

• mid-ocean ridge

When two plates move AWAY from each other.

• friction

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• strike-slip fautl