5th 6 Week Final Review #3

In what physical layer of earth are the convection currents found which move the lithospheric plates?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Outer Core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is formed when two lithospheric plates slide past one another?

• Transform Plate Boundary
• Convergent Plate Boundary
• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Subduction Plate Boundary

What type of boundary is formed when two lithospheric plates collide?

• Transform Plate Boundary
• Convergent Plate Boundary
• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Rifting Plate Boundary

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What type of boundary is formed when two lithospheric plates move away from each other?

• Transform Plate Boundary
• Convergent Plate Boundary
• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Subduction Plate Boundary

What feature forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic lithospheric plates?

• Rift Valley
• Folded Mountains
• Deep Sea Trench
• Mid Ocean Ridge

What feature forms at a divergent boundary between two continental plates?

• Rift Valley

• Folded Mountains

• Deep Sea Trench

• Mid Ocean Ridge

What feature forms when two continental plates collide?

• Rift Valley

• Folded (Thrust) Mountains

• Volcanic Mountains

• Mid Ocean Ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the driving force behind tectonic plate movement?

• Convection in the asthenopshere

• Flow of Phlogiston in the atmosphere

• Density in the Lithosphere

• Convection in the outer core and the electromagnetic force

• Rotational forces from Earth spinning

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Boundary between two colliding plates, often associated with mountain building, ocean trenches and volcanic islands

• plate boundary

• magma

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary, usually between continental and oceanic plates

• subduction zone

• lava zone

• nitrogen zone

• continental zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3