Plate Boundaries

What is the name of the plate boundary that slides past each other?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
• Mr. C the Slide Man

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A subduction zone is a __________ boundary.

• transform
• divergent
• convergent
• transferring

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is happening at this boundary?

• A rift valley forms
• Mountains are building
• The ocean is sinking
• Volcanoes form

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What 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

What are you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Mountain
• Rift Valley
• Island Arc

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

In which type of boundary do the plates move away from each other?

• convergent
• normal
• divergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is happening in the picture?

• layers of the Earth are changing positions

• the inner and outer core are solid

• convection currents are causing the tectonic plates to move

• the mantle is growing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Label the correct boundaries

• Convergent= Land to Land

• Makes Mountains

• Divergent Boundaries

• Mid Ocean Ridges

• Convergent Boundaries

• 
• Divergent= Ocean to Ocean

• 
• Transform Boundaries

• 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A deep sea trench, like the Mariana Trench, is created when an oceanic plate is subducted under a continental plate. What type of plate movement causes this to happen? (ocean to land convergent)

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2