Earth Formation

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is this?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

States that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed

• Law of crosscutting

• Law of superposition

• Relative Dating

• Unconformity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which layer is OLDER? Intrusion M or Layer D?

• Intrusion M

• Layer D

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What layer has a solid inner part and a liquid outer part?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• none

What are the three main layers of the Earth?

• Center, Middle, Outer

• Center, Mantle, Crush

• Core, Mantle, Crust

• Core, Middle, Crush

What does the theory of continental drift state?

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

• Continents are stationary and do not move

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

• none of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of Boundary is this? What event will occur at this boundary?

• Transform / Earthquakes

• Subduction / Volcano Eruption

• Tornado / Rain

• Mountain Building / Volcanism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

moving weathered material (sediment)

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Delta

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Smaller particles collecting together into larger and larger objects is called . . .

• accretion

• contraction

• explosion

• rotation