Plate Tectonics SCI653

When two continental plates collide, and one does not subduct, what land formation is created?

• folded mountains

• earthquakes

• trenches

• volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This layer of the Earth surrounds the inner core and is estimated to be about 2,300 kilometers thick.

• mantle

• crust

• inner core

• outer core

The thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle.

• tsunami

• crust

• inner core

• San Andreas Fault

The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion due to convection currents in the asthenosphere (upper mantle).

• mantle

• Seafloor spreading

• Plate Tectonics

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of what type of boundary?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When two plates slide past each other, it happens at this boundary.

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

The Andes mountain range formed as a result of the subduction of the Nazca Plate and the Antarctic Plate beneath the South American Plate as the plates collide. What type of plate boundary is exhibited?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Scientists believe water currents within the Earth's mantle are slowly causing the plates above to move.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the upper part of the mantle.

• ocean basin

• mid-ocean ridge

• rift valley

• lithosphere

The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other.

• transform boundary

• lithosphere

• dormant volcano

• continental crust