Plate Tectonics

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

_________ are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.

• Seismic Waves
• Rumbles
• Plate Tectonics
• Convection Currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced?

• Rift valley
• Deep-ocean trench
• Mid-ocean ridge
• Transform bounda

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A __________ is a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.

• deep-ocean trench
• rift valley
• sea-floor spreading
• mid-ocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Insurgent boundary

_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Allegiant boundary
• Transform boundary
• Sliding boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• emergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• convergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• Seismic waves
• Convection current
• Divergent boundary
• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mountains form from....

• Tectonic plates sliding past one another
• Collision of tectonic plates
• Tectonic plates moving away from each other
• Tectonic plates disappearing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This image represents this type of boundary

• Divergent
• Transform
• Convergent
• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3