Plate Tectonics Map Assessment Review

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Read the Map What do these arrows explain about the plate boundaries? Options: The 2 plates are converging, The 2 plates are diverging, The 2 plates are sliding past one another (transform).

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The 2 plates are diverging.

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What do these arrows explain about the plate boundaries?

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The 2 plates are sliding past one another (transform).

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What do these arrows explain about the plate boundaries?

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The 2 plates are converging.

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Which example is a convergent boundary? Options: South American and African, Eurasian and Indian, Pacific and North American, Arabian and African

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Eurasian and Indian

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Which example is a transform boundary?

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Pacific and North American

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What geological feature would an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary create?

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volcanic islands

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What geological feature would an oceanic-continental convergent boundary create?

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volcanic mountains

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What geological feature would a continental-continental convergent boundary create?

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non-volcanic mountains

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When one plate forces its way under another plate.

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subduction

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The edges of plates.

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boundaries