Plate Boundaries Review

A large, giant supercontinent land mass is called

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• pangaea

• oceanic crust

Plates that diverge or move apart from each other

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

• lithosphere

Continental plate collides with another continental plate creates

• volcanoes

• earthquake

• trench

• folded mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• faults

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates boundary where plates slide or move past each other

• divergent

• continental drift

• transform

• convergent

The type of geological event that occurs under transform boundaries

• folded mountains

• earthquakes

• volcanoes

• tsunamis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• neither

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

• folded mountains

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following answer choice describes an ocean plate vs continental plate?

• creates trench or volcano

• creates earthquakes at subduction zones

• creates folded mountains or new land

• creates rift valleys

Subduction occurs under which plate boundary?

• lithosphere

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3