Plate Tectonics

Which type of plate boundary would cause folded mountains to form? 

• transform
• convergent
• divergent
• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary. 

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subduction

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

What drives tectonic plate movement?

• gravity

• coriolis effect

• convection currents

• the Earth's magnetic core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations? 

• at plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes
• deep sea trenches
• underwater mountain ranges
• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Two tectonic plates collide at a _?_ plate boundary.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• transformer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This land form can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• folded mountains
• fault

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, _?_.

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents DO NOT move

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass