Plate Tectonics Quiz

The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion due to convection currents in the mantle.

• mantle

• volcano

• Pangaea

• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When 2 continental plates move apart at a divergent boundary they form this feature.

• Plate Tectonics

• rift valley

• Andes Mountains

• seismographs

A current caused by the rising of heated (less dense) fluid and sinking of cooled (denser) fluid that drives plate movement in the mantle of the earth.

• waves

• magnetism

• continental drift

• convection current

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When two continental plates collide, this landform is created.

• folded mountains

• trenches

• volcanoes

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Mid-Atlantic ridge is an example of what type of boundary?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is responsible for the creation of new oceanic crust?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• All three

Type of plate boundary shown in the diagram

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transversal

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Type of plate boundary shown in this diagram

• Divergent

• Tranform

• Convergent

• Reverbrant

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Type of plate boundary shown in the diagram:

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subvergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

In order for volcanoes to form an ocean plate must move UNDER a continental plate. This is called

• transformation
• subduction
• convergence
• divergence