PLATE TECTONICS AND EARTH'S STRUCTURE

What is formed where these plates are spreading apart?

• new ocean floor

• earthquakes

• volcanoes

• mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is formed where 2 CONTINENTAL PLATES COLLIDE?

• ocean basin

• earthquakes

• mountains

• volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which is less dense?

• Oceanic Crust

• Continental crust

Which is more dense?

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

When a continental plate collides with a oceanic plate which plate is subducted (goes under)?

• continental

• oceanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What landform is likely to be created where one plate is forced under another?

• Volcano

• Earthquake

• Ocean Basin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The lithosphere is subdivided into:

• tectonic plates
• continents
• islands
• poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This structure rests on top of the asthenosphere:

• Lithosphere
• Outer Core
• Lower Mantle
• Oceanic Crust

Volcanoes are formed at this type of boundary:

• oceanic-oceanic

• oceanic-continental
• continental-continental
• none of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How is new crust made?

• sea-floor spreading
• continental-oceanic
• continental-continental
• rift valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2