Earth's Process Unit Overview

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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 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

What movement is this?

• Subduction

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Once upon a time, there was a super continent called...

• Panda

• Super Earth

• Pangaea

This is the name for the chain of volcanos around the edge of the Pacific Plate.

• Circle of Fire

• Ring of Lava

• Ring of Fire

• One Hot Magma

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

According to the rock cycle, when liquid magma cools into a solid, what is formed?

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• lava

• glaciers

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-ESS2-3

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart