Warm-up/review: Plate Boundaries

What is the force that moves the continents?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conveyor belts

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

What results when divergence occurs between two oceanic plates? (choose all that apply)

• a subduction zone/composite volcanoes

• seafloor spreading/new ocean crust

• an ocean trench

• rift valley

• volcanic fissures

The process where dense oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted/recylced is called ___________.

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental plate collides with another continental plate creates

• volcanoes

• earthquake

• trench

• folded mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates boundary where plates slide or move past each other

• divergent

• continental drift

• transform

• convergent

The type of geological event that occurs at ALL plate boundaries

• folded mountains

• earthquakes

• volcanoes

• tsunamis

• trenches

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Ocean plate collides with ocean plate creates

• mid- ocean ridge

• sea floor spreading

• earthquakes

• volcanic ark of islands

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• neither

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What plate boundaries would experience volcanic activity (magma coming to the surface)? (choose all that apply)

• Divergence at a mid ocean ridge

• Convergence between an ocean plate and continental plate

• Transform fault where one plate slides past another plate

• Convergence between a continental plate and continental plate

What descriptions match continental crust? (choose all that apply)

• Thicker

• Thinner

• less dense

• more dense