Plate Tectonics

Land features such as volcanoes and earthquakes most often occur...

• randomly across the whole earth

• next to the ocean

• In the middle of continents

• On the edges of tectonic plates.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

New crust is formed at this type of boundary

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

This feature can be found along a divergent boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountains

• deep sea trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Sea-floor spreading explains how.....

• new crust is created at a divergent boundary

• volcanoes are formed on continents

• deep sea trenches are formed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Divergent plates move

• away from each other

• towards each other

• slide past each other

Convergent plates move

• towards each other

• away from each other

• past each other

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At a transform boundary the plates...

• collide

• diverge

• slide past each other

Name the boundary