Plate Tectonics Review

What type of boundary is pictured?

• divergent, rift valley

• divergent, sea floor spreading

• convergent, mid- ocean ridge

• convergent, rift valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of convergent boundary is pictured?

• convergent- oceanic & continental

• convergent- subduction zone

• convergent- continental & continental

• convergent- sea floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Identify this geologic feature

• sea floor spreading from divergent boundary

• rift valley from convergent boundary

• subduction zone from convergent boundary

• crust destroyed from transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which letter represents the asthenosphere/mantle?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which of the following creates new crust?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When one plate slides underneath another, it ____ and the magma _____. 

• hardens; sinks
• melts; sinks
• hardens; rises
• melts; rises

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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