Plate Boundaries

What is a divergent plate boundary?

• A boundary between two plates that are moving apart
• A boundary between two plates that are crashing together
• A boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other
• A boundary between two plates that are not moving

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following boundaries is a divergent boundary?

• The boundary between the Nazca Plate and the Pacific Plate
• The boundary between the South American Plate and the Nazca Plate
• The boundary between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate
• The boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What causes seafloor spreading to occur?

• Old crust is destroyed at divergent boundaries.
• New crust forms at divergent boundaries, pushing old crust outwards.
• Old crust pushes new crust towards divergent boundaries.
• New crust forms as plates move over hotspots.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is a divergent boundary? 

• two plates moving towards each other
• two plates rubbing side to side
• two plates moving away from each other
• happens in the lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What feature is formed by this boundary type?

• Ocean ridges
• San Andreas fault
• Himalayan Mountains
• Lake Erie

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plates are colliding

• 2 oceanic plates
• oceanic and continental plate
• 2 continental plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is this?

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform Fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What would you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Mountains
• Rift

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is happening at this boundary?

• Plates are subducting
• Mountains are building
• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes form

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of plate boundary features the collision between 2 plates? 

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• Continental