Plate Tectonics

______________ Crust is OLDER and _____________ Crust is more dense

• Continental, Continental

• Oceanic, Oceanic

• Oceanic, Continental

• Continental, Oceanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Heated magma moves upwards, cools, and then sinks. This is called a...

• Heat Zone

• Convection Current

• Seafloor Spreading Event

• Continental Drift Motor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What can be formed at a DIVERGENT plate boundary?

• Mid-Ocean ridges and rifts

• Trenches

• Subduction Zones

• All of these!

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

At a TRANSFORM boundary, plates move...

• Towards each other

• Apart from each other

• Side to side

• Plates aren't moving at a transform boundary

At a CONVERGENT boundary, plates move...

• Towards each other

• Away from each other

• Side to Side

• It depends on the TYPE of convergent boundary

At a CONVERGENT plate boundary between OCEANIC and CONTINENTAL crust, which of the following is FALSE?

• Volcanoes can form

• Oceanic curst goes underneath continental crust

• A trench forms

• Continental crust goes under oceanic crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3