Regents Plate Tectonics

What is this image...

• Revolving boundary

• San Andreas (Transform)

• Convergent

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A continental rift valley can be formed from stretching continental crust at...

• transform plate boundaries

• convergent plate boundaries

• divergent plate boundaries

• all plate boundaries

A mid-ocean ridge occurs at a ________ plate boundary.

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

What type of boundary is the SAN ANDREAS FAULT on?

• Covergent

• Transformers

• Divergent

• Transform

In the region where two continental plates collide, what geological feature MOST often forms?

• an ocean

• a volcano

• a river valley

• a mountain chain

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Crustal plates that pull apart from one another MOST likely form

• volcanic island arcs

• strike-slip faults

• oceanic trenches

• rift zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which two plates collided with each other to form the Himalayan Mountains?

• Nazca and Eurasia

• Indo-Australian and Eurasian

• North America and Antarctic

• South American and Indo-Australian

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Which of these tectonic plate boundaries is most likely to form a volcano.

• continental plate colliding with a continental plate

• oceanic plate sliding past a continental plate

• continental plate sliding past a continental plate

• oceanic plate colliding into a continental plate

What causes the tectonic plates to continually to move?

• Convection currents

• Volcanic and seismic activity

• Strong winds and storms

• Rotation of the solid core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Rocky or rigid outer part of Earth consisting of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle

• Lithosphere

• Oceanic Crust

• Continental Crust

• Asthenosphere