Plate Tectonics

This single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents is called

• Pangrea

• Pangaea

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The formation of new areas of oceanic crust which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side

• Subduction

• Transform

• Convergent

• Sea-Floor Spreading

This is when one plate goes under another

• Transform

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Subduction

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Look at this image. What type of plate boundary is this?

• Divergent

• Complex or Uncertain

• Transform

• Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle is called

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Pangaea

• Earthquake

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A volcanically active area of the Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary

• Fault

• Crust

• Core

• Hot Spot

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface

• Fault

• Boundary

• Continental Drift

• Earthquake

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The layer of the earth that is the only liquid layer is

• Outer Core

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Crust

He is the German scientist who theorized that Pangaea split apart and drifted into different locations

• Alfred Wagner

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Alfred Wagoner

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3