Oreo Cookie Tectonics Lab

According to the Oreo Cookie Tectonics Lab background information, what is the lithosphere broken into?

• Continents

• Tectonic plates

• Oceans

• Valleys

Which type of crust is younger, cold, and dense, and is made of metals-rich rock basalt?

• Oceanic crust

• Continental crust

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

Fill in the blank: Continental crust is typically silicon-rich, older yet lite and fluffy. Continental crust is typically found in ______ and can be billions of years old!

• continents

• oceans

• mountain trenches

• volcanic islands

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is subduction?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the type of plate boundary with its effect:

• Oceanic -Continental

• Earthquakes

• Divergent

• Subduction: volcanoes and deep trench; earthquakes

• Transform

• Mid-Ocean Ridge volcanoes; earthquakes

• Continental -Continental

• Tall mountains and earthquakes

• Oceanic -Oceanic

• Subduction: volcanoes and trench; earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Convergent boundaries occur when plates move away from each other.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of boundary is described as where tectonic plates move apart from each other, producing magma and volcanoes?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subduction

What happens at transform boundaries?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

According to the diagram, what is always true about continental crust and oceanic crust when they interact?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3