Alfred Wegener, Tectonic Plates and Topography

Describe the most likely relationship between these mountains and nearby tectonic plates.

• The mountains are probably formed by earthquakes

• The mountains are probably formed by the movement of glaciers

• The mountains are probably located near the edge of 2 tectonic plates.

• The mountains are probably formed by running water.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Most earthquakes tend to occur at which location?

• The central regions of very large continents

• Groups of islands farthest from any continents

• The boundaries between continents and oceans

• The steep slopes of the very oldest mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere and consist of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle

• tectonic plates

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

the place where two different plates have contact.

• Pacific Plate

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Plate Boundaries

Occurs when two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

• convergent boundary

• subduction

• volcanic eruptions

• divergent boundary

Events in which molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of Earth as ash, lava and gases; major geological events that occur when a dense plate subducts below a less dense plate

• Mountain Building

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Volcanic eruptions

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Major geological event that occurs when continental plates of equal density converge, resulting in mountain chains

• Mountain Building

• Subduction

• Volcanic eruptions

• Divergent Boundary

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Volcanic eruptions

• Mountain building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Ridges formed from new crustal material at diverging oceanic plate boundaries

• Ocean Basin

• earthquakes

• spreading ridges

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other

• Transform Boundary

• Ocean Basin

• Divergent Boundary

• Spreading ridges