Earth's Geological Processes

What is the theory that the outer layer of Earth is divided and moves?

• Plate Tectonics
• Volcanic Eruption Theory
• Earthquake Theory
• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary causes a continental rift and an oceanic ridge?

• Subduction plate boundary
• Transform plate boundary
• Divergent plate boundary
• Convergent plate boundary

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What type of boundary is responsible for mountains on land and/or oceanic trenches?

• Transform boundary
• Subduction boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Convergent boundary

What type of plate boundary is when plates are moving past each other?

• Transform plate boundary
• Convergent plate boundary
• Divergent plate boundary
• Subduction plate boundary

What type of convergent boundary is responsible for mountains?

• Continent-Continent

• Continent-Ocean

• Ocean-Ocean

• Subduction-Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of convergent boundary is responsible for volcanoes?

• Continent-Continent

• Continent-Ocean

• Ocean-Ocean

• Ocean-sea

What type of convergent boundary is responsible for oceanic trenches?

• Continent-Ocean

• Continent-Ocean

• Ocean-Ocean

• Continent-sea

When tectonic plates move away from each other,it's called a _______ boundary

• transform
• convergent
• parallel
• divergent

When tectonic plates move toward each other, it's called a _________ boundary.

• transform
• convergent
• divergent
• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of rock is made up of grains of sand with various different layers

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1