Plate Tectonics/History of Earth

What is associated with transform boundaries?

• mountains
• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• islands

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?

• reduction
• conduction
• subduction
• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A break or crack in the Earth's crust is called a...

• plate
• fault
• fold
• crack

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations? 

• at plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...

• closest to a mid-ocean ridge
• farthest from a mid-ocean ridge
• near the coastlines
• closest to a deep sea trench

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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-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Where would the oldest rock be found?

• L
• M
• N
• O

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3