PLATE TECTONICS AROUND THE WORLD

What is the type of plate boundary that causes a mid-ocean-ridge ?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

What did Wegener think happened during continental drift?

• continents froze over
• continents moved
• the mantle warmed
• convection stopped

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called...

• death ring
• fire zone
• ring of fire
• zone of fire

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?

• decreases
• increases
• fluctuates
• remains the same

The vibration and shaking of the Earth...

• volcanism
• plateau
• earthquake
• richter scale

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Younger sea floor crust is located...

• farther from the mid-ocean ridges
• at the mid ocean ridges
• at the subduction zone
• near the continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This land formation occurs at a divergent continental/ continental boundary.

• mid ocean ridge
• deep ocean trench
• pacific hot spot
• rift valley

In a tectonic plate demonstration during class, Mrs. Smith

pushes two pieces of modeling clay together. What kind of

plate boundary was the teacher demonstrating?

• Convergent

• Earthquake

• Equator

• Divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3