Plate Tectonics

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were all created by this kind of boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Subduction zones in the ocean can create which geologic events / features?

• islands arcs

• volcanoes

• earthquakes

• ocean trenches

• mid-ocean ridges

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions most likely occur 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

The Himalayas in Asia formed because of of what type of plate boundary?

• divergent

• continent-to-continent convergent

• ocean-to-continent convergent (subduction)

• transform

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what geologic event?

• volcanic eruptions

• deep sea trenches

• underwater mountain ranges (mid-ocean ridges)

• earthquakes

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

• oceanic

• continental

• neither

Two tectonic plates collide (join) at a _______ plate boundary.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A rift valley can be formed from stretching continental crust at a...

• transform plate boundaries

• convergent plate boundaries

• divergent plate boundaries

• all plate boundaries