Changing Earth's Surface

What happens when magma reaches the surface?

• It cools into lava rock

• It exploes

• It glows red

• It melts back into the earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What describes tectonic plates that collide together?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What describes tectonic plates that pull apart?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What describes tectonic plates that slide side by side?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following does NOT change the look of a delta?

• the height of tides along its shore

• the size of sediment carried by the flowing water

• the number of ocean waves that reach its shore

• the amount of fishing done in the water on its shore

Deposition is

• the settling or dropping of sediment in a new location.

• a type of rock.

• an example of a fast change.

• an increase in water temperature.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

_______ can make the area of a beach DECREASE.

• Less rain & river flow

• increased deposition

• increased wave size & stronger currents

• decreased wave size & weaker currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The theory of ________________ refers to the idea that slow changes to Earth's surface, such as ice ages and plate tectonic motion, were primarily responsible for the changes on Earth.

• gradualism

• catastrophism

• evolution

• gravitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is a constructive force in which sediments have been moved from one place and released in another place?

• deposition

• weathering

• glacier

• sink hole

What is melted rock below the Earth's surface called?

• lava

• magma

• sediment

• weathering