Plate Tectonics Quiz Review

For science night, a group of students modeled plate boundary motions to show what they've been studying in science. Which description best models a convergent boundary between a continental and oceanic plate?

• Two students collide into each other. Both students raise their arms to show the formation of a folded mountain.

• Two students collide into each other. One student subducts to the floor.

• Two students that are standing next to each other move apart.

• Two students slide past each other.

The three types of tectonic plate boundaries are:

• seafloor spreading

• Active, passive, and extinct

• Seismic, volcanic, and subducting

• Divergent, convergent, and transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A large, giant supercontinent land mass is called

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• pangaea

• oceanic crust

Plates that diverge or move apart from each other

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

• lithosphere

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When a continental plate collides with another continental plate, it creates....

• volcanoes

• earthquake

• trench

• folded mountains

Occurs when a less dense plate slides under a more dense plate

• tectonic plates

• subduction

• continental drift

• landmass

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What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• faults

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Plates boundary where plates slide or move past each other

• divergent

• continental drift

• transform

• convergent

What plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• neither

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• folded mountains

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

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