Convergent & Transform Boundaries Checkpoint

A transform boundary, where one tectonic plate slides past another, is likely to result in which of the following?

• Frequent earthquakes

• Rift valley formation

• Intense weathering

• Mountain building

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Why did the continental plate get volcanoes?

• It is made of thicker continental crust
• It gets stuck and folds
• It has a subducted plate under it that melts
• It is more dense

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Why did the plate on the left subduct?

• More dense
• heavier
• Thinner
• Made of basalt

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plates are colliding

• oceanic - oceanic plates

• oceanic - continental plate

• continental - continental plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plates are colliding?

• oceanic - oceanic plates

• Oceanic - continental plate

• continental - continental plates

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The process by which one lithospheric plate is forced under another

• Radiation

• Convection

• Conduction

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• detergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The San Andreas fault in California is on this type of plate boundary.

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3