Rock Cycle and Plate Tectonics

What is it called when rock changes from one type to another?

• rock and roll

• rock cycle

• Rock drift

• rock tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of plate boundary & crust type usually creates tall mountains?

• Convergent, continental-oceanic

• Divergent, continental-continental

• Convergent, continental-continental

• Transform

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The youngest rocks would be located _____

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge

• farthest away from the mid-ocean ridge

• in the middle of the mid-ocean ridge

• none of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary has plates crashing into each other?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

What theory explains how the plates of the Earth are continually moving?

• Continental Drift Theory

• Theory of Evolution

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Big Bang Theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Subduction is when one plate goes under another plate. What causes this plate to go under the other plate?

• it is less dense than the top plate

• it is more dense than the top plate

• the plates are part of the Ring of Fire

• volcanoes forced the magma to go underneath

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Why do earthquakes occur near the San Andreas fault?

• One plate slowly pushes up the other plate

• A trench is created as one plate slides under the other plate.

• Portions of the plates get stuck and then suddenly loosen and move.

• One plate pushes hard enough to reverse the motion of the other plate.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which provides the best evidence for the theory that faults and volcanoes are results of tectonic plate interactions?

• Faults on tectonic plates are in constant motion, but volcanoes may not erupt for many years.

• Faults and volcanoes existed long before there were tectonic plates.

• Tectonic plates that have many faults do not usually have volcanoes.

• Faults and volcanoes are often found at tectonic plate boundaries.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of large plates and the movements of a number of smaller plates of the Earth's surface.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What process is occurring at the mid-ocean ridge?

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• subduction zone

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3