Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes

Boundaries that slide past one another.

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This volcano gathers magma deep within the Earth’s surface.

It explodes violently.

Grows thousands of meters tall.

• Cinder Cone

• Composite

• Shield

• Lava Dome

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The region in the mantle, the layer of Earth below the crust, where heat rises.

• caldera

• hot spot

• volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The pieces of land that connect together on the Earth's outer shell.

• Boundary

• tectonic plates

• volcanoes

• caldera

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic plates collide into each other and mountains can form.

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A way that a volcano can form

• Divergent boundaries

• Hot spots

• Subduction Zone

• All choices

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

An active volcano that is not erupting at that moment is...

• Active

• Dormant

• Extinct

One plate moves under another one and a volcano can form. 

• Divergent boundary

• Subduction

• Transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A large volcanic crater that is formed after the magma chamber collapses.

• Shield Volcano

• Hot Spot

• Caldera

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Simplest type of volcano. Particles and blobs of lava eject from volcano vent.

• Cinder Cone

• Composite

• Shield

• Lava Domes