Plate tectonics/ Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Earth's plates meet at ____________.

• plate tectonics

• plate boundaries

• continental drift

• oceans

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates slide past each other at _________________ boundaries.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• universal

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which theory describes the motion of the force driving Earth's Plates?

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• first law of motion

• third law of motion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

• Panthalassa
• Laurasia
• Gondwanna
• Pangaea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?

• Subduction
• Induction
• Abduction 
• Reduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Insurgent boundary

_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Allegiant boundary
• Transform boundary
• Sliding boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.

• Fissure
• Rift valley
• Sea-floor spreading
• Fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is this?

• convergent

• transform

• divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3