2.2 - Maine Geology

Select each place volcanoes can be found

• Convergent boundaries

• Transform boundaries

• Divergent boundaries

• Hot Spot

Select each location Earthquakes are likely to occur.

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Central Rift valley occurs at

• the central ridge of a divergent boundary

• The center of a trench at a convergent boundary

• in the middle of tectonic plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Hydrothermal vents are where

• superheated magma erupts on the seafloor

• shallow water meets continental margins

• Water in the crust is superheated by underlying magma.

• sediments on the ocean floor melt to form lava flows.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Hydrothermal vent chimneys are made when (select all that apply)

• superheated magma meets freezing ocean water.

• minerals dissolved in the superheated water precipitate in the freezing ocean water.

• minerals from the superheated water dissolve and mix with ocean water.

• Superheated water escapes through fissures in the rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Flat, sandy region of the ocean floor found between trenches and the continental rise

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Plateaus

• Estuaries

Which of the following are examples of Passive Continental Margins

• Coastline of Florida

• Coastline of California

• Coastline of Peru

• Coastline of Japan

Active Continental Margins are characterized by all of the following except

• convergent plate boundary along the shoreline

• Volcanic mountain range along the shoreline

• wide, continental shelf

• rocky shoreline

Hawaii is associated with what type of geologic feature

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Hot Spot

The Ring of Fire is located in

• The rim of the pacific ocean

• The rim of the Atlantic Ocean

• The rim of the Indian ocean