Plate Tectonics Spanish

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

• Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

• New crust is underwater where it sinks

• New crust breaks more easily than old crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A convergent boundary occurs when plates experience ________ force

• Compression

• Tension

• Sheer

• Subducting

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide

• Two oceanic plates pull apart

• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

• Two continental plates pull apart

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Oceanic Trenches are formed by either _______ or _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent Oceanic / Continental

• Convergent Continental / Continental

• Convergent Oceanic / Oceanic

• Divergent

Ocean Ridges are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent Oceanic / Continental

• Convergent Continental / Continental

• Convergent Oceanic / Oceanic

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mountains are formed by _______ forces

• Compression

• Sheer

• Tension

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The upper part of the mantle that is semisolid where convection pushes the tectonic plates

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What causes convection currents?

• Hot magma rises while cool magma sinks

• The rotation of the Earth

• Ocean currents pulling plates apart

• The spinning of the Earth's core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental crust is largely made of

• Dense basalt rock

• Light basalt rock

• Dense granite rock

• Light granite rock

Why does oceanic crust subduct under continental crust?

• Oceanic crust is thin

• Oceanic crust is dense

• Continental crust is thin

• Continental crust is dense

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