Plate tectonics

Earth's huge supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.

• Pangea

• Nazca

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Oceanic Trenches are formed by either _______ or _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent Oceanic / Continental

• Convergent Continental / Continental

• Convergent Oceanic / Oceanic

• Divergent

Divergent boundary

• where two plates are moving away from each other

• may result in seafloor spreading

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• where two plates slide past each other

When oceanic and continental crust collide what feature would form?

• volcanic island arc

• folded mountain

• volcanoes on the continent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Ocean ridges are caused by _______ forces

• Compression

• Sheer

• Tension

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Non-volcanic earthquakes are caused by _______ forces

• Compression

• Sheer

• Tension

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What causes convection currents?

• Hot magma rises while cool magma sinks

• The rotation of the Earth

• Ocean currents pulling plates apart

• The spinning of the Earth's core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The outer layer of the Earth (the crust) is the...

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Crust

Magma that erupts out of volcanoes comes from.....

• melted transform crust

• melted oceanic crust

• melted continental crust