Reference Tables Page 5

At which plate boundary is one lithospheric plate sliding under another?

• Pacific Plate and Indian-Australian Plate

• Indian-Australian Plate and Antarctic Plate

• Nazca Plate and Pacific Plate

• Nazca PLate and Antarctic PLate

• North American Plate and African Plate

According to tectonic plate maps, New York State is

presently located

• at a divergent plate boundary

• at a convergent plate boundary

• above a mid-ocean ridge

• near the center of a large plate

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The diagram below shows the interaction of two tectonic plates. The type of boundary represented in the diagram most likely

exists between the

• South American Plate and the African Plate

• South American Plate and the Nazca Plate

• Antarctic Plate and the African Plate

• Antarctic Plate and the Indian-Australian Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Iceland is closest to the

• East Pacific Ridge

• South-East Indian Ridge

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Mid-Indian Ridge

What type of plate boundary exists between the African

Plate and the South American Plate?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

The Peru-Chile trench marks the boundary between the Nazca Plate and the

• South American Plate

• North American Plate

• African Plate

• Pacific Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is located at a converging plate

boundary?

• Sandwich Plate

• Southwest Indian Ridge

• Marianas Trench

• Iceland Hotspot

At the Aleutian Trench and the Peru-Chile Trench,

tectonic plates are generally

• converging

• diverging

• transforming

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Contact zones between tectonic plates may produce

trenches. One of these trenches is located at the

boundary between which plates?

• North American and Eurasian

• Indian-Australian and Pacific

• South American and African

• Australian and Antarctic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which two tectonic plates are separated by a mid-ocean

ridge?

• North American and Eurasian

• Indian-Australian and Pacific

• North American and South American

• Indian-Australian and Eurasian

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3