REVIEW: Plate Tectonics

Which of the following is a real world example of a divergent plate boundary location:

• San Andreas

• Iceland

• The Cascade Mountains

• The Aleutian Islands

• The Andes Mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is a real world example of a divergent plate boundary location:

• San Andreas

• East Africa

• The Cascade Mountains

• The Aleutian Islands

• The Andes Mountains

Which of the following is a real world example of a divergent plate boundary location:

• San Andreas

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• The Cascade Mountains

• The Aleutian Islands

• The Andes Mountains

Which diagram represents a divergent boundary

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which features are associated with divergent plate boundaries and which are not:

Groups:

(a) Divergent Boundary

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(b) Not associated

• Subduction

• Trench

• Volcanoes

• Rift Valley

• Seafloor spreading

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The region located between the ridges (mountains) at divergent boundaries:

• Trench

• Subduction zone

• Rift valley

• Volcanic island arc

• Continental volcanic arc

Divergent boundaries are considered ​ (a)   boundaries

• constructive
• destructive
• conservative
• liberal

Constructive boundaries are locations in which lithosphere is:

• created

• destroyed

• neither created nor destroyed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Lithospheric plates at divergent boundaries move:

• toward one another

• away from one another

• past one another

Which of the following does not belong:

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Trench

• Rift valley

• Seafloor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3