Tectonic Plate Interactions and Deep Sea Trench

Click all boxes of surface features that can form as a result of the plate movement below.

• Mountains

• Volcanoes

• Trenches

• New Seafloor

• Subduction Zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Theory of Plate Tectonics developed from other theories. Which combination of the following theories was most directly responsible for the development of the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

• Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading

• Pangea and Special Relativity

• Heliocentric Theory and Continental Drift

• Plate Boundaries and Pangea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

When two CONTINENTAL plates collide at a plate boundary, which of the following landforms will most likely be formed?

• a deep ocean trench

• volcanic islands

• a rift valley

• a mountain range

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on the crust of the Earth. Which of the following processes best explains the formation of the Mariana Trench?

• seafloor spreading

• weathering and erosion

• convergence of tectonic plates

• transform boundary faulting

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Read the information below and answer the question.

• student one

• student two

• student three

• student four

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The diagram below models the movement of two tectonic plates

• a mid-ocean ridge is forming

• subduction is occurring because oceanic crust is denser than continental crust

• a divergent boundary is forming

• a transform boundary is forming due to two plates sliding past one another

The image shows a plate boundary. Arrows have been added to indicate the movement of the plates

• a ridge by an inactive convergent boundary

• a valley forming at an active divergent boundary

• a fault forming at an active transform boundary

• a volcano formed by an active transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic plates are made up of the Earth's crust and the top part of the mantle. What is this layer called?

• continent

• core

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

Which of these landforms would most likely be found at a divergent boundary?

• mid-ocean ridge

• volcanic island

• mountain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following causes seafloor spreading to occur?

• Sediments are deposited and build up new ocean floor

• The asthenosphere is growing larger, forcing the lithosphere apart.

• Magma is rising to the surface at mid-ocean ridges, forming new rock Pushing older rock away

• Super volcanoes on one side of the Earth split open the opposite of the Earth creating new rock.

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