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A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere, including most of the landmasses of Europe and Asia is called

• Plate of Europe and Asia

• European Plate

• AsiaEuro Plate

• Eurasian Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Africa and the surrounding oceanic crust is known as the

• Somali Plate

• Euroafrican Plate

• African Plate

• South American Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of South America and the oceanic crust extending to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is called the

• South American Plate

• Columbian Plate

• Indo-Australian Plate

• North American Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of India and Australia and the surrounding oceanic crust is known as the

• Sub-Australian Plate

• Indo-African Plate

• Indo-Australian Plate

• South American Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Antarctica and the surrounding oceanic crust

• Sub-Arctic Plate

• Alaskan Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• North Pole Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that is composed entirely of oceanic crust and lies beneath the Pacific Ocean is called the

• Atlantic Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Gulf Coast Plate

• Oceanic Plate

The place where two different plates have contact is called

• subduction

• trench

• fault

• plate boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This occurs when two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

• tsunami

• convergent boundary

• volcano

• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This occurs when one plate is denser than another and is forced below as the two plates converge at their boundary. Oceanic trenches are formed this way by ocean plates.

• convergent boundary

• ocean trench

• subduction

• divergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A major geological event that occurs when a dense plate subducts below a less dense plate and molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of Earth

• mountain building

• volcanic eruption

• ocean trench

• earthquake

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2