Plate Tectonics Review

Tectonic activity such as earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely to occur where?

• Where two tectonic plates interact

• Far away from the edges of tectonic plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Match the following

• Plates move apart

• Transform

• Plates move together

• Divergent

• Plates slide by

• Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following are likely to be found at a convergent plate boundary?

• Mid ocean ridges and rift valleys

• Mountains, volcanoes, ocean trenches

• Many earthquakes, faults, and cracks

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which of the following are likely to be found at a divergent plate boundary?

• Mid ocean ridges and rift valleys

• Mountains, volcanoes, ocean trenches

• Many earthquakes, faults, and cracks

Which of the following are likely to be found at a transform plate boundary?

• Mid ocean ridges and rift valleys

• Mountains, volcanoes, ocean trenches

• Many earthquakes, faults, and cracks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

​ (a)   happens where an ​ (b)   plate is forced ​ (c)   another tectonic plate and melted in the ​ (d)   .

• Subduction
• oceanic
• under
• mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Place the following in the correct order for the process of SUBDUCTION:

• Oceanic crust and continental crust meet

• The oceanic crust is forced into the mantle

• The oceanic crust is melted

• Both plates pull down on each other

• The melted crust comes back up in a volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the following

• Less dense, made of granite

• Tectonic Plate

• A piece of Earth's crust

• Mantle

• Center part of the Earth

• Oceanic Crust

• Very dense, made of basalt

• Continental Crust

• Contains Convection Currents

• Core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Select all of the following that Alfred Wegener used as evidence of continental drift (pick 3)

• The edges of continents fit together like puzzle pieces

• Similar plant fossils found across oceans

• Similar animal fossils found across oceans

• The seafloor was mapped which reveal small volcanoes

• Satellite imagery revealed the plates were moving

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which type of tectonic plate boundary created the Himalayan Mountains?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1