Evidence of Plate Motion

What is responsible for the volcanoes, mountain ranges and earthquakes?

• Weathering

• Super-nocturnal tides

• Hurricanes

• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is evidence of seafloor spreading?

• matching fossils on either side of the mid-ocean ridge

• evidence of tropical plant fossils on the seafloor

• same rock types in both North America and Africa

• the magnetic striping on the seafloor on either side of the mid-ocean ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Where do most volcanoes and earthquakes occur?

• Under the flat surface of plates

• Above the flat surface of the plates

• Along plate boundaries

• At the center of plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity

• coriolis effect

• convection currents

• the earth's magnetic core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is a land feature that scientists use as evidence for the theory of continental drift?

• nearly identical mountain ranges on opposing continents

• Pebbles in a stream that have no business being there.

• Fish located in current oceans where there couldn't be fish found years ago.

• coal deposits on opposing continents where plant life isn't supported by the current climate.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A fern-like plant found on 5 continents that is evidence that the continents were once connected.

• tulipisias

• stegosaurus

• mesosaurus

• glossopteris

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The fossil of a fresh water reptile found in both South America and Africa, suggesting that the two continents were once connected.

• Tyrannosaurus

• Mesosaurus

• Glossopteris

• Brontosaurus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Zipper-like chain of undersea mountains along a divergent plate boundary are called ...

• subduction zones

• hot spots

• sea-floor spreading

• mid-ocean ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

New ocean floor is created along a mid-ocean ridge along diverging plates through a process known as ...

• sea-floor spreading

• sea-floor convergence

• sea-floor subduction

• sea-floor immergence