Plate Tectonic Review

What are the two different types of crust?

• Continental/Oceanic

• Lithosphere/Mesosphere

• Nazca/Eurasian

• Laurasia/Gondwana

Which type of crust is more dense?

• Antarctic

• Atmospheric

• Oceanic

• Continental

An underwater mountain chain where sea-floor spreading occurs is called what?

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Magnetic reversals

• Mariana trench

• Subduction zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At mid ocean ridges...

• The crust is older

• Sea-floor spreading occurs

• Oceanic lithosphere is destroyed

• Tectonic plates are colliding

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Collision

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Uplifting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Breakage

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Continental-continental, oceanic-oceanic, and continental-ocean are the three types of ___________ boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A subduction zone is where two plates do what?

• Collide and one is pushed under the other and destroyed

• Spread apart to form new crust

• Collide and form mountains

• Separate and form new continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What determines which tectonic plate will subduct during convergence?

• Mass of the plates

• Speed of convergence

• Volume of the plates

• Density of the plates

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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