Plate Tectonics Introduction

What type of boundary is shown at A?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

• subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of crust is more dense?

• oceanic

• continental

• divergent

• pizza

What is happening at point B?

• subduction

• a divergent boundary

• convection

• an earthquake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name the boundary

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

• subduction

Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes

• deep sea trenches

• underwater mountain ranges

• earthquakes

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

• Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic

• continental

• neither

What boundary creates mountains?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• fast