Plate Tectonics and Earth's Interior

Which best describes a major characteristic of both volcanoes and earthquakes?

• They are centered at the poles.

• They are located in the same geographic areas.

• They are related to the formation of glaciers.

• They are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Contact zones between tectonic plates may produce trenches. One of these trenches is located at the boundary between which plates?

• Indian-Australian and Pacific

• South American and African

• Indian-Australian and Antarctic

• North American and Eurasian

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The diagram above shows the collision of an oceanic plate and a continental plate. Collisions between oceanic plates and continental plates are thought to result primarily from

• hot liquid magma in the inner core

• convection currents in the mantle

• volcanic eruptions along coastlines

• meteor impacts in the ocean basins

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

At the Aleutian Trench and the PeruChile Trench, tectonic plates are generally

• moving along a transform boundary

• moving over a mantle hot spot

• diverging

• converging

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Locations A, B, C, and D are shown on the map below.

• A

• B

• C

• D

The cross section above shows the location of earthquakes near a plate boundary. This distribution of earthquakes near the plate boundary is most likely caused by

• a transform fault

• a mantle hot spot

• subduction of a crustal plate

• divergence of crustal plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which diagram best shows the type of plate boundary found between the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

On which plate is the Hawaii Hot Spot located?

• South American

• Antarctic

• Nazca

• Pacific

Which of the following is located at a converging plate boundary?

• Southwest Indian Ridge

• Iceland Hotspot

• Marianas Trench

• Sandwich Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary exists between the African Plate and the Antartic Plate?

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

• complex