6th Final '25

The lithosphere is broken into separate sections called what?

• Faults

• Rift Valley

• Plates

• Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Wilson combined what geologists knew about what THREE things to create the theory of plate tectonics?

• Sea Floor Spreading

• Tectonic Cracks

• Earth's Plates

• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is an idea that has been tested many times and explains a lot of different things we can observe?

• educated guess

• scientific theory

• hypothesis

• none

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The theory of plate tectonics states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are doing what?​ ​

• They're in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• They're in fast, stop and go motion, driven by the water cycle.

• They're in fast and slow motion at the same time.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory of plate tectonics explains what three things about Earth's Plates?

• Formation

• Movement

• Subduction

• Heat Transfer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is subduction?

• where two plates move apart

• where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions

• when one plate slides beneath the other

• when two plates come together

What is a divergent boundary? 

• where two plates move apart

• where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions

• when one plate slides beneath the other

• when two plates come together

What is a convergent boundary?

• where two plates move apart

• where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions

• when one plate slides beneath the other

• when two plates come together

What is a transform boundary? 

• where two plates move apart

• where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions

• when one plate slides beneath the other

• when two plates come together

Choose the three ways boundaries move.

• collide

• no motion

• pull apart

• grind past each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3