Plate Boundaries and Landforms

Plates slide horizontally past each other at a convergent boundary.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Mid-ocean ridges are formed along a divergent boundary under the water.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where plates pull away from each other

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

Plates collide with one another

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

Where two plates slide past one another

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

One plate is forced under another in a ______.

• mid-ocean ridge

• subduction zone

• fault zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _____is an underwater volcanic mountain chain.

• mid-ocean ridge

• subduction zone

• fault zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Scientists have observed that plates move at rates ranging from 1 cm to 12 cm per _______.

• century

• decade

• day

• year

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following would not be formed by tension stress at a divergent boundary?

• mid-ocean ridge

• rift valley

• fold mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

__________ are formed when two continental plates collide.

• Volcanoes

• Strike-slip faults

• Mountain ranges

• Rift valleys