Review - PDOL Plate Tectonics

What geologic feature/event 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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When two oceanic crusts converge, what crustal feature is likely to form?

• Fossil layers

• Trench & Volcano

• Deep-sea sediment

• Seafloor spreading

If contour lines are close together, then the slope is

• gentle
• steep
• flat
• going up and down

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike slip

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Mountain

• Rift Valley

• Island Arc

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Fault

• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The satellite photo below shows the city of

Brownsville, Texas. Which area of the coastline

experiences the greatest effect of erosion from

waves over hundreds of years?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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A group of geologists found that the chemical composition and age of two rock samples from two different mountains located in South America and Africa came from the same source of magma. This important discovery provides evidence of:

• Global Warming

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Plate Tectonics

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Folded mountains are created by:

• Convergent Boundaries      

• Subduction Boundary

• Divergent Boundaries

• Transform Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the topographic map to its profile.

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