Plate Tectonics (Test Review)

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subducting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What kind of plate boundary is shown here? What does that cause?

• divergent; rift valley

• convergent; mountains

• transform; earthquakes at the fault line

• transform; volcanoes at the boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Himalayan Mountains formed at which type of boundary? What type of crusts are involved?

• divergent; oceanic and continental

• divergent; 2 continental crusts

• convergent; continental and oceanic

• convergent; 2 continental crusts

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When 2 oceanic crusts diverge, what geological feature will form?

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Mountain
• Rift Valley
• Island Arc

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.

• fault
• plate boundary
• plate edge
• ring of fire

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3