Plate Tectonics Earthquakes and Volcanoes

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

• Outer Core
• Mantle
• Inner Core
• Crust

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic
• continental
• neither

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Two tectonic plates collide at a _______ plate boundary.

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...

• along the coast
• along tectonic plate boundaries
• in the Arctic
• in the ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

This landform can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• ocean trench
• mid-ocean ridge
• tall mountains
• transform fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3