Plate Tectonics
Authored by Gilbert Maruna
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6th - 8th Grade
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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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
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-ESS2-3
NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
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