Crustal Features (8.9B)

A mid-ocean RIDGE is located at the boundary of two tectonic plates. Which diagram correctly models the relative plate motion on each side of a mid ocean ridge?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is formed when two continental plates collide?

• volcano
• mountain
• trench
• rift valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What are the deepest places on Earth formed by pushing oceanic crust under continental crust?

• mid-ocean ridges
• rift valleys
• trenches
• mountain ranges

What forms when two oceanic plates diverge?

• moutains
• rift valley
• mid-ocean ridge
• deep-ocean trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the two types of crust?

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and basin
• lower and upper
• thick and thin

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name this plate boundary.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• allegiant 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name this plate boundary.

• divergent 
• convergent
• transform
• transformers

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name this plate boundary.

• divergent
• convergent 
• transform
• insurgent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3