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Plate Boundaries

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5th - 6th Grade

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Plate Boundaries
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When two tectonic plates are moving away from each other, the boundary between them is called...

Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, the boundary between them is called...

Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When two tectonic plates slide past each other, neither crashing together, nor pulling apart, the boundary between them is called...

Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When a continental plate is pulled away from another continental plate, the area of crust that is thinned and pulled apart is called. 

a trench
a rift zone or rift valley
ocean spreading ridge
Continental crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When convergent plates collide, if both plates are pushed upward, this forms.  

Fissures
Mountain Ranges
Volcanoes
Rock Cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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New oceanic crust (sea floor) is created at this boundary.

Divergent Oceanic

Divergent Continental

Convergent Oceanic

Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Oceanic crust (sea floor) is destroyed at this boundary.

Convergent Oceanic

Divergent Oceanic

Convergent Continental-Continental

Divergent Continental

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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