Transform Boundary

What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?

• convergent

• horizontal

• divergent

• transform

A boundary that doesn't create or destroy crust is called a:

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Rift Valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is this image of?

• Divergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Plate Boundary (San Andreas Fault)

• Convergent Plate Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where plates slide past each other is known as a (a)   boundary.

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

Transform boundaries are considered conservative because lithospheric plates are ​ (a)   here. Plates are neither created nor destroyed.

• created

• destroyed

• expanded

• conserved

​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ (a)   The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally ​

• Tectonic Plate

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Sea-floor spreading

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Subduction

• Ocean Trench

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

Associated with transform boundaries.

• Volcanoes

• mountains

• trenches

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

In a Transform Plate Boundary, the plates​ ​ (a)   each other.

• Move towards

• violently shears against

• moves away from

Which two things are used as evidence of transform fault boundaries?

• offsetting/zigzags

• earthquakes

• islands

• volcanoes

• none of these

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Transform boundaries...

• plates slide past each other

• plates divide

• plates collide/crash

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3