Plate Boundaries Review 2

Which are true about the convection currents that drive plate tectonics?

• They happen in the crust

• They happen in the mantle

• Hotter material rises

• colder material rises

• They happen due to uneven heating in the earth

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Plate tectonics

Which of the following plate boundaries make earthquakes?

• Divergent only

• Convergent only

• Transform only

• All plate boundary types

• Convergent and transform only

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Plate tectonics

The map at right shows the age of earth's ocean floors. Based on those ages, label where the earth's crust is spreading faster and where it's spreading more slowly.

a

b

slower

Faster

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the following plate boundary types to their motion

• Convergent

• Plates move apart

• Divergent

• Plate slides below another

• Subduct

• Plates slide parallel

• Transform

• Plates slide together (collide)

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Plate tectonics

The dark blue, curved line in the ocean is called a

• trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• fault

• island arc

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Plate tectonics

Select all landforms/events that occur at an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary

• trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• earthquake

• island arc

• rift valley

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Plate tectonics

The movement of weathered rocks due to wind, rain, or gravity

• Chemical weathering

• Physical weathering

• Deposition

• Erosion