Plate Boundaries

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

• Volcanoes and Trenches

• Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

• Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

• Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The diagram shows a landform on Earth. How did the movement of Earth’s plates form the landform?

• Two oceanic plates slid past each other.

• Two continental plates collided.

• One continental plate slid past an oceanic plate.

• One continental plate subducted beneath an oceanic plate.

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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?

• Folded mountains, volcanoes

• Mid-Ocean Ridge, rift valley

• Island Arc, volcanoes

• Flat land, earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

If the mid-ocean ridge is represented by the deep V cut into this diagram, where would the oldest rock be found?

• L
• M
• O

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

In the Atlantic ocean, where is the youngest seafloor located?

• Towards the edges

• Youngest seafloor is in the middle of the ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The letter B represents

• Subduction zone

• Trench

• Oceanic crust

• Island Volcano Arc

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The diagram below shows a cross section of a portion of the Earth. The mountain ranges at location B are most likely volcanic.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which plate is the SUBDUCTING or sinking plate in a convergent boundary?

• The dense oceanic plate

• The Thick continental plate

• Neither

• Both ocean and continental plate can sink.

Plates that move apart from each other

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

• lithosphere