Plate Tectonics

This type of boundary can be found along the San Andreas fault in California....

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This feature can be found along a divergent boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountains

• deep sea trench

Subduction means.....

• one plate goes under another plate

• two plates slide past each other

• two plate collide and form folded mountains

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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-ESS2-3

divergent plates move

• away fro each other

• towards each other

• slide past each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

convergent plates move

• towards each other

• away from each other

• past each other

At a transform boundary the plates.....

• collide

• diverge

• slide past each other

Mountains form from ...

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name the boundary

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is represented by the picture? 

• Sea-floor spreading
• Pangea
• How the continents are arranged today
• Volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3