Plate Tectonics Introduction

Plate Tectonics Introduction

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Plate Tectonics Introduction

Plate Tectonics Introduction

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3, NGSS.MS-ESS2-2, ESS2.A

+6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the driving force behind the movement of the tectonic plates?

Gravity

Convection

Wave motion

Seismic activity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

At a divergent boundary, tectonic plates move in what way? 

Tectonic plates move towards each other

Tectonic plates slide past each other

Tectonic plates move up and down

Tectonic plates move away from each other

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How do the plates move along convergent boundaries?

They move towards one another

They move away from one another

They move past one another

One moves up and one moves down

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

A land feature that is produced at a convergent boundary is

valley

ocean

canyon

volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

5.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Match the following

Divergent boundary

A plate boundary where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another

Subduction

A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

Transform boundary

A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move apart from each other

Convergent boundary

process in which two lithospheric plates of different densities converge and the denser one sinks into the mantle beneath the other

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

6.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

This image shows the formation of a mountain range at this ​ (a)   plate boundary.

convergent

destructive force

force field

divergent

transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

7.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

​ (a)   the process by which rock material moves under Earth’s outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion

subduction

uplift

weathering

sediment

Tags

ESS2.A

ESS2.C

ESS3.A

ESS3.C

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