6.2/6.3 Interactions of Plates Quiz

Match the term to its description:

• Island Arc

• a region along a convergent plate boundary where one plate moves underneath another

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• a deep underwater valley formed by the subduction of one tectonic plate beneath another

• Subduction Zone

• an undersea mountain range where new crust in generated

• Seafloor Spreading

• the process of older rock being pushed away from a mid-ocean ridge towards the continents

• Oceanic Trench

• a geologic feature formed from the convergence of two oceanic plates where cooling lava eventually forms a group of islands

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Put each of the terms or statements into the category for the plate boundary they would belong in:

Groups:

(a) Divergent Boundary

,

(b) Convergent Boundary

,

(c) Transform Boundary

• Example: Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Example: San Andreas Fault

• Tectonic plates collide

• Tectonic plates move apart

• Where slab pull happens

• Example: Himalayan Mountains

• Where ridge push happens

• Tectonic plates slide past each other

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Identify where these processes and features are in the diagram:

• E.

• Trench

• D.

• Slab Pull

• C.

• Ridge Push

• A.

• Rift

• B.

• Convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of these is used as evidence for the process of seafloor spreading?

• Magnetic patterns on the ocean floor

• Fossils of sea animals at the tops of mountains

• Anomalies in Earth's gravitational pull

• Presence of volcanic islands in the middle of a tectonic plate

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When oceanic and continental plates collide, the oceanic plate will always subduct underneath the continental plate because the oceanic plate is​ (a)  

• more dense
• less dense
• the same density