Regents Plate Tectonics

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes

• deep sea trenches

• underwater mountain ranges

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic

• continental

• neither

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Two tectonic plates collide at a _______ plate boundary.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle

• focus

• plate boundary

• convection

Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...

• along the coast

• along tectonic plate boundaries

• in the Arctic

• in the ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This landform can occur at a divergent plate boundary.

• ocean trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• tall mountains

• transform fault

What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Mr. C the Slide Man

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• A peninsula

• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct. 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway