Tectonic Plates

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

In the region where two continental plates collide, what geological feature MOST often forms?

• an ocean

• a volcano

• a river valley

• a mountain chain

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What type of boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other?

• transform
• subduction
• convergent
• divergent

What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley
• mountain
• mid-ocean ridge
• trench

What type of boundary occurs when two plates move toward each other?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• lateral

Mountains form at a ___________ boundary.

• transform
• divergent
• convergent
• subduction

What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?

• divergent
• transform
• lateral
• convergent