Plate Boundaries

What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Mountains
• Rift Valleys

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

In which type of boundary do the plates move away from each other?

• convergent
• normal
• divergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates slide past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• detergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3