Plate Tectonics

Earth's plates meet at ____________.

• plate tectonics

• plate boundaries

• continental drift

• oceans

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates slide past each other at _________________ boundaries.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• universal

________________ currents drive Earth's plate movement.

• ocean

• atmosphere

• wind

• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which theory describes the motion of the force driving Earth's Plates?

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• first law of motion

• third law of motion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The San Andreas fault is an example of which type of boundary?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• universal

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Created by a divergent boundary.

• Rocky Mountains
• Mariana Trench
• Mid Atlantic ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes
• mountains
• trenches
• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This land formation occurs at a divergent continental/ continental boundary.

• mid ocean ridge
• deep ocean trench
• pacific hot spot
• rift valley

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary