Plate Tectonics and Earth's Layers

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Plate Boundary

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent
• Transform
• Plate
• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

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

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which of these two layers is a solid?

• innercore
• Outercore

A dense ball of solid iron and nickel.

• crust
• inner core
• mantle 
• outer core

What is the rigid layer of the Earth's surface made up of the  crust and upper mantle called?

• asthenosphere
• lithosphere
• mesosphere
• continental crust