Plate Tectonics

Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?

• Tectonic plates on the crust move.
• The mantle increases in size.
• Pressure in the crust increases.
• Pressure in the crust decreases.

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Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust
• Oceanic crust
• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The mantle of Earth is made partly of magma. When magma rises and sinks, this is called ______________. 

• a conduction current
• a hot spot
• a volcanic eruption
• a convection current

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As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

• They would all increase
• They would all decrease.
• They would stay the same.  
• Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase. 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Where does the heat come from that drives this convection current in the mantle? 

• The sun
• The crust
• the mantle
• the core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

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During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

• along the continents
• at the mid ocean ridges
• deep ocean trenches
• at north and south poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

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This land formation occurs at a divergent boundary.

• mid ocean ridge
• deep ocean trench
• pacific hot spot
• rift valley