Grade 7 Science quiz: Plate tectonics evidence

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What this quiz should check

Topic: Plate tectonics: evidence from fossils, rocks and the seafloor (MS-ESS2-3). A good grade 7 quiz on this asks students to:

• Use matching fossils and rock types on different continents as evidence that they were once joined
• Explain how the shapes of continents, including their continental shelves, fit together
• Use seafloor features such as mid-ocean ridges and trenches as evidence of plate motion
• Explain that plates move slowly, a few centimeters a year, over very long time spans

Misconceptions worth a question

• Thinking continents move quickly, or that plate motion has stopped
• Thinking plates float on an ocean of liquid lava (the mantle is mostly solid rock that flows very slowly)
• Fitting continents by today's coastlines instead of the edges of their continental shelves

Teacher tip: This standard's assessment boundary leaves out magnetic striping on the seafloor, so tell the AI to skip paleomagnetism and focus on fossils, rocks, continent shapes and seafloor features.

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