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Comprehensive Curriculum
Grade Eight Unit 2
Activity 1: Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading
Multiple Choice:
ESS-M-A2: GLE 9
1. Which of the following is evidence of continental drift?
a. plant and animal fossils
b. puzzle-like fit of the continents
c. rock clues
d. all of the above
2. What happens to old seafloor when new seafloor is created?
a. it is destroyed by the new seafloor
b. the old seafloor stays in the same place it was
c. the old seafloor is pushed outward by the new seafloor
d. the old seafloor creates new continental crust
Activity 3: Plate Boundaries
Multiple Choice:
ESS-M-A2 GLE: 12
1. Which of the following plate boundary diagrams would form
mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes?
a.
b.
c.
d.
SI-M-A1: GLE 2
2. You are hired to investigate Earth’s plate boundary movement,
which step would you start with first?
a.
b.
c.
d.
create a hypothesis
review the work of others
create a theory
analyze data
Activity 5
ESS-GLE 12:
1. The San Andreas Fault is referred to as a transform boundary.
The picture above shows the movement that occurs at this
boundary, so what may result from this movement?
A. volcanic eruption
B. an earthquake
C. mid-oceanic ridge
D. mountain formation
ESS-GLE 9:
1. In the Continental Drift theory, how did Wegener theorize the
continents moved to their current location?
A. an earthquake occurred
B. the Earth’s rotation
C. a meteor hit the Earth
D. the Big Bang happened
Answer Key
Activity 1:
1. d
2. c
Activity 2:
1. a
2. b
Activity 3:
1. b
2. b