Test 4

The earth's outer shell is divided into slabs of rock called ______ .

• continental plates

• crustal plates

• trench plates

• tectonic plates

What is the driving force behind the movement of the plates?

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Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the following as either Continental crust or Oceanic crust

• older

• Continental

  crust

• recycles

• Continental

  crust

• thicker

• Oceanic

  crust

• basalt rock

• Oceanic

  crust

• less dense

• Continental

  crust

Match the following

• transform

• 
• divergent

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• convergent

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Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

• divergent

• convergent

• continental

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?

• continental and continental

• Oceanic and continental

• oceanic and divergent

• continental and convergent

What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

• volcanoes

• new crust

• Trenches

• rift valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the WHOLE AREA called where the oceanic crust goes beneath the continental crust?

• subtraction zone

• section zone

• secondary zone

• subduction zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At which boundary is crust neither consumed or created?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• oceanic

The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, are part of the ___ .

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• mantle

• granitic rock