Plate Tectonics Task Cards

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another

• at every type of convergent plate boundary

• at every type of divergent plate boundary

• at transform boundaries

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.

• fault

• plate boundary

• plate edge

• ring of fire

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

​ (a)   the process by which rock material moves under Earth’s outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion

• subduction

• uplift

• weathering

• sediment

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ESS2.A

ESS2.C

ESS3.A

ESS3.C

This image shows the formation of a mountain range. At this ​ (a)   plate boundary, colliding plates are a ​ (b)   .

• convergent

• constructive force

• destructive force

• force field

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This image shows the formation of a mountain range at this ​ (a)   plate boundary.

• convergent

• destructive force

• force field

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Match the following

• Convergent boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another

• Transform boundary

• process in which two lithospheric plates of different densities converge and the denser one sinks into the mantle beneath the other

• Continental rifting

• The process by which a continent is pulled apart at a divergent plate boundary

• Divergent boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move apart from each other

• Subduction

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

According to the graph, how many kilometers from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are rock samples that are 75 million years old? ​

​ (a)  

• 1,150 Km

• 3 Km

• 1,300 Km

• 800 Km

• 1,000 Km

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Label the parts of the plate boundary

a

b

c

Subduction zone

Mountains

Continental crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3