Plate Tectonics

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

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This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

• New Madrid

• Denali Fault

• Ramapo Seismic Zone

• San Andreas Fault

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What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

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What is a divergent boundary? 

• two plates moving towards each other
• two plates grinding/sliding past each other.
• two plates moving away from each other
• plates that don't move at all

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What forms at the divergent boundary? 

• deep-ocean trench
• mid-ocean Ridge
• land ridge
• the Pacific Ocean

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Plates slide grind/slide  past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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What is the term for the process by which a heavier, denser plate slides under a less dense plate?

• plate boundary
• submersion
• accretion
• subduction

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subducting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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