CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES

Which plate undergoes subduction at oceanic - continental convergent plate boundaries? Why?

• The oceanic plate. It is denser than the continental plate

• The oceanic plate. It is less dense than the continental plate

• The continental plate. It is denser than the oceanic plate

• The continental plate. It is less dense than the oceanic plate

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The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Plate Boundary

Volcanic islands can form from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano

• Rift

• Mountain

• Island Arc

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

• detergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• lower and upper

• ocean and upper

• pizza and subway

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

• divergent

• ocean-to-continent convergent

• continent-to-continent convergent

• transform

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Mountains form from ...

• plates sliding past one another

• plates moving away from each other

• collision of plates

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

• strike slip

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1. Subduction does not occur at which convergent plate boundary?

• Oceanic - Oceanic

• Continental - Continental

• Oceanic - Continental