Plate Tectonics Review

Continental-continental plate collisions produce ____.

• deep-sea trenches
• rift valleys
• island arcs
• very tall mountain ranges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along which of the following boundaries?

• magnetic
• transform
• divergent
• convergent

Which layer of Earth is the most dense?

• mantle
• crust
• inner core
• outer core

Tectonic plates float on the ____.

• atmosphere
• mantle
• core
• crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary occurs between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate, shown in the figure above?

• convergent oceanic-oceanic plate boundary
• convergent oceanic-continental plate boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary occurs between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate, shown in the figure above?

• convergent oceanic-continental plate boundary
• convergent oceanic-oceanic plate boundary
• convergent continental-continental plate boundary
• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At an oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary, ____.

• plates side past one another
• old crust is deformed or fractured
• new crust is created
• old crust is recycled by subduction

Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because ____.

• mantle convection currents weren’t in motion at that time
• magnetic and sonar data proved that Wegener’s hypothesis was incorrect
• Wegener couldn’t explain why or how the continents move
• continental landmasses were too big to move slowly over Earth’s surface

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at a ____.

• hot spot
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• convergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Where on Earth are the longest mountain ranges located?

• lower parts of Antarctica
• the western United States and Mexico
• near the centers of the oceans
• on the Continental crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3