2.3 Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

_________ currents carry heat from the hot inner core to the cooler outer mantle and back again.

• River
• Radiation
• Convection
• Conduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Which type of plate boundary occurs at B?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• country

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of plate boundary is shown at A?

• transform boundary
• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• fractured boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When plates slide past one another, _________ occur.

• divergent boundaries
• convection currents
• subduction zones
• transform faults

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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Whenever a subduction zone is formed a ______ is formed.

• Mountain
• Island Arc
• Rift
• Volcano

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