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

• transform
• convergent
• divergent
• subduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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 are the two types of crust?

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

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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-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

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.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Two tectonic plates collide at a ___ plate boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• transformer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This land form can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

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