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Plate Tectonics

Authored by Gilbert Maruna

Science

6th - 8th Grade

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Plate Tectonics
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Nazca plate and South America plate is an example of a oceanic and continental plate converging. The denser oceanic plate (Nazca) moves under the continental plate (South American Plate). What features are likely found here?

Rift Valley

Volcano

Folded mountains

Ocean basins

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The large plates move across the surface of the Earth by what process?

Convection

Radiation

Condensation

Conduction

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3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Indian Plate converges with the Eurasian Plate. When two continental plates converge what crustal feature is expected to form?

Rift valley

Volcano

Folded mountains

Ocean basin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If the sea-floor is spreading, how are the ocean crusts moving?

Converging

Diverging

Sliding

No movement

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5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of

boundary is it?

Converging

Diverging

Transforming

Sea floor spreading

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When two oceanic plate boundaries meet, what crustal feature forms?

Plate tectonics

Sea floor spreading

Folded mountains

Volcanic arc islands

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When an oceanic crust meets a continental crust, what occurs?

The oceanic crust moves under the continental crust resulting in volcanoes.

The oceanic crust moves over the continental crust resulting in volcanoes.

The two crusts converge forming folded mountains such as the Himalayas.

Both crusts are subducted down into the mantle.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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