Geologic Processes Test 2

Which description identifies one limitation and one benefit of this model?

• Limitation: does not have a liquid core

  Benefit: the hard plates represents the crust

• Limitation: plate movement cannot be replicated

  Benefit: cracks on plate represent tectonic plate boundaries

• Limitation: is not the same color as that of the crust

  Benefit: has the same number of plates as it is on the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Why do earthquakes occur in California?

• The 2 plates form a transform boundary

• The 2 plates form a divergent boundary

• The 2 plates form a convergent boundary

• The 2 plates form a subductive plate boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which layer is the thinnest and has the lowest density?

• crust

• mantle

• outer core

• inner core

What is the outer core?

• Middle layer of the Earth

• Dense, solid layer

• Outermost layer of the Earth

• Liquid layer that rotates around the inner core

How do volcanoes form on Earth?

• Hot water under the crust convects

• Hot magma in the mantle convects

What is the inner core?

• Dense, solid layer

• Thin and loose

• Made up of very hot rock that flows

• A shell of very hot liquid

How do rocks become igneous rocks?

• Sedimentary rock weathers and collects in rivers to become igneous

• Mountains erode into particles that get compacted into igneous

• Tectonic plates push the sedimentary rock under the Earth, melts into magma and then cools into igneous

Which boundary form oceans?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

How do mountains form?

• 2 continental (land) plates collide

• An ocean plate collides with a continental plate

• 2 plates slide past each othere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is an example of rapid change in tectonic plates?

• earthquake

• mountain building

• creating ocean floor

• rock cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2