ES 9.3 Formative

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Rift Valleys

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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

• Rift Valley

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island Arc

• Flat land

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

• Volcano

• Mountain

• Rift

• Island Arc

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Sometimes, when two tectonic plates collide, one is pushed below the other; this action at the convergent boundary is called...

• Divergent boundary
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When an oceanic plate is subducted under a continental plate, a deep valley is formed in the ocean. What is this valley called? 

• a trench
• a rift zone
• ocean spreading ridge
• Continental crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Canadian geologist J. Tuzo Wilson suggested that the lithosphere was broken into several huge pieces called _____.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

According to Wilson, and the theory of plate tectonics, the movement of Earth's plates is driven by

• convection currents in the mantle

• energy from the sun

• ocean currents

• nuclear fusion deep inside Earth's interior

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plate boundaries that can be thought of as constructive, meaning new lithosphere is produced there.

• transform-fault boundaries

• convergent boundaries

• divergent boundaries