Divergent Plate Boundaries

What motion occurs at divergent boundaries?

• Plates slide past each other

• Plates move apart

• Plates flip around

• Plates crash into each other

A mid ocean ridge is a result of what?

• ocean-ocean convergent plates

• transform boundaries

• continental-continental divergent plates

• ocean-ocean divergent plates

True or False: At divergent boundaries, magma is pushed up from the mantle, creating new crust.

• False

• True

What word can you use to remember the motion that occurs at divergent boundaries?

• Collide

• Slide

• Divide

• Multiply

True or False: Earthquakes never occur at divergent boundaries

• True

• False

What causes the motion of tectonic plates?

• The tides

• convection currents in the mantle

• strong winds

• the movement of magma in the core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following can be caused by divergent boundaries?

• Volcano

• Island Arcs

• Fold Mountains

• Rift Valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

True or False: A clean break usually occurs at divergent plate boundaries

• True

• False