Plate Tectonics

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

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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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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

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The tectonic plates float on the

• lithosphere

• lower mantle

• outer core

• asthenosphere

What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?

• reduction

• conduction

• subduction

• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...

• it did not agree with their current theory

• Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago

• Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis

• Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...

• closest to a mid-ocean ridge

• farthest from a mid-ocean ridge

• near the coastlines

• closest to a deep sea trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Rising magma that results from subduction may produce...

• fossil layers

• volcanic island arcs

• deep-sea sediment

• seafloor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What geologic process formed the Himalayas?

• two continental plates converging

• an earthquake in a subduction zone

• a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot

• movement at a transform fault boundary

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