Plate Tectonics

Name this boundary

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• Sergent

Name the boundary

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• sergent

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Name the boundary

• convergent
• transform
• divergent
• sergent

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Tectonic plates float on top of the ________

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

When two plates diverge, what will happen

• Loose rock material fills the empty space.

• New plate material fills the empty space, creating new crust

• There will be a gap in the land that never gets filled

• Trash will fill the gap created

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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What happens when two continental plates converge?

• The plates will crumple up and create mountains

• One plate will slide under the other because it is more dense, creating a volcano

• Both plates will split apart and magma will come up

• The plates won't do anything

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Under sea mountain ranges are called:

• deep sea trench

• aquatic ranges

• mid-ocean ridges

• salty hills

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When one piece of crust gets pushed under another one, it called:

• lithosphere

• mid-ocean ridge

• subduction

• divergent

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The theory of plate tectonics is based on hot magma rising and cool magma sinking. This cycle is called:

• density

• convection

• Alfred Wegener

• boiling

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Mid-Ocean Ridges are similar to which continental landforms?

• hills
• valleys
• mountain range
• canyons

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