plate tectonics

A plate boundary is a place where two tectonic plates meet. There are several types of tectonic plate boundaries. Which statement below shows the correct definition of a tectonic plate boundary?

• At a divergent boundary, plates separate.

• At a transform boundary, plates move apart.

• At a convergent boundary, plates slide past each other.

• At a divergent boundary, one plate sinks under another plate.

Identify this type of plate movement

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic plates can be made of continental crust or oceanic crust, or a combination of the two. Besides their locations, how else are these two kinds of crust different?

• Continental crust is thinner than oceanic crust.

• Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.

• Tectonic plates made of continental crust are larger than plates made of oceanic crust.

• Tectonic plates made of continental crust are smaller than plates made of oceanic crust.

    __________       describes the large scale movement of the Earth’s lithosphere.

• Crust Displacement

• Mantle Movement

• Plate Tectonic

• None

This scientist was the first to develop the idea of continental drift.

• Wegener

• Einstein

• Copernicus

• Hawking

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Identify this type of plate movement

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Around 200 – 250 million years ago ______ started to break into separate plates. 

• Oceans

• China

• Pangea

• None

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Two plates moving or sliding by each other.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

Two plates collide

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Identify this type of plate movement

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• None