Weather/ Plate Tectonics

This is the symbol for which type of front?

• cold front
• warm front
• stationary front
• occluded front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This is the symbol for which type of front?

• cold front
• warm front
• occluded front
• stationary front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

_____________ air is more dense and tends to sink

• cold
• warm
• moist
• dry

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A front is

• where warm air is cooling at earth's surface
• a line where hot and cold air are separating
• a line where two different air masses meet
• where cold air is rising and forming rain clouds

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of boundary is the diagram showing and what is likely to occur?

• convergent boundary forming earthquakes
• convergent boundary forming volcanoes
• transform boundary forming volcanoes
• transform boundary forming earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the diagram showing? 

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• mountain boundary
• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that

• the oceanic crust is melting.

• the denser ceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

• volcanic islands are forming.

• the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the mantel.

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which most likely produces clear, cool weather?

• zero air pressure
• stable air pressure
• a low pressure system
• a high pressure system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A cold front is approaching Minneapolis. What will happen to the air temperature?

• stay the same
• increase
• decrease

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5