Plate Boundaries and Crustal Features

What is the 'magic' that is happening in the upper mantle that helps move the 'lithospheric plates'?

• Convection

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Aside from Earthquakes, what is the only thing you will find at transform boundaries?

• Volcanoes

• Subduction Zones

• Folded Mountains

• Fault lines

When one plate sides under neath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

• hardens, sinks

• melts, sinks

• hardens, rises

• melts, rises

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the 'magic' that is happening in the mantle that helps move the 'lithospheric plates'?

• Convection

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What do these volcanoes indicate about plate tectonics in the region?

• The volcanoes form an island arc, indicating a converging plate boundary.

• The volcanoes form a line, indicating a diverging plate boundary.

• Two plates are moving past each other, causing faulting and magma formation.

• Two plates are moving apart, creating new seafloor.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What plate boundary feature is also shown?

• A ridge formed by an inactive convergent boundary

• A valley forming at an active divergent boundary

• A fault forming at an active transform boundary

• A volcano formed by an active transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

_______ are formed when two continental plates collide.

• Mountain ranges

• Transform faults

• Rift valleys

• Volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ________.

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

• subduction zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of plate boundary occurs at B?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• country

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3