Transform boundaries and Hotspots

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Transform Boundary

,

(b) Not associated

• Island formation

• Seafloor spreading

• Trench

• Rift valley

• Volcanic island arc

• Mountains

• Continental volcanic arc

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Hotspot

,

(b) Not associated

• Rift valley

• Volcanic island arc

• Volcanoes

• Island formation (sometimes)

• Trench

• Continental volcanic arc

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Seafloor spreading

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which is an example of a transform boundary:

• The Himalayas

• The Andes

• Iceland

• The Caribbean

• San Andreas

Which is an example of a hotspot:

• The Himalayas

• The Andes

• Iceland

• Yellowstone

• San Andreas

Which is an example of a hotspot:

• The Caribbean islands

• The Andes

• Iceland

• Hawaii

• San Andreas

Why are there no active volcanoes at transform boundaries?

• There are. Most volcanoes occur at these boundaries.

• There is no subduction. The plates grind past one another.

• There is not enough magma in the mantle to feed volcanoes in these locations.

• The gravitational pull of the moon is too great and forces the magma to remain submerged.

• The downward force of the colliding continents keeps the magma from rising to the surface.

Transform boundaries are considered ​ (a)   boundaries because lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed.

• conservative
• constructive
• liberal
• subductive
• destructive

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Transform boundaries are considered conservative because lithospheric plates are ​ (a)   here. Plates are neither created nor destroyed.

• created
• destroyed
• expanded
• conserved

Lithosphere at transform boundaries move ​ (a)   one another.

• toward
• away from
• past

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Identify the type of plate boundary:

• oceanic-continental convergent

• oceanic-oceanic convergent

• continental-continental convergent

• transform

• divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3