Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley
• mountain
• mid-ocean ridge
• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary occurs when two plates move toward each other?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• lateral

What forms at a convergent boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?

• volcanoes
• rift valleys
• faults
• mid-ocean ridges

A rift valley occurs at a ____________ boundary.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• horizontal

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A trench forms at a _________ boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• vertical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mountains form at a ___________ boundary.

• transform
• divergent
• convergent
• subduction

What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?

• divergent
• transform
• lateral
• convergent

A fault forms at a _________ boundary.

• transform
• divergent
• horizontal
• convergent