Plate Tectonics

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.

• Pangea
• Gondwanda
• Laurasia
• Neverland

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...

• Pangea
• Plate Tectonics
• Natural Selection
• Gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent
• Transform
• Plate
• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Islands can from from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core

Which layer of Earth is located above the outer core?

• crust
• inner core
• mantle
• lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3