Quick Practice: Plate Tectonics

Match the plate boundary with the correct picture.

• CONVERGENT

• 
• DIVERGENT

• 
• TRANSFORM

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the plate boundary with the correct picture.

• DIVERGENT

• Plates sliding past one another

• TRANSFORM

• Plates moving apart

• CONVERGENT

• Plates colliding head-on

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The lithosphere (crust) is broken into sections called

• plates

• faults

• ridges

• trenches

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Really big mountains form at which boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seafloor spreading occurs at which type of boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Choose all the features that can be formed at DIVERGENT boundaries.

Groups:

(a) Transform Boundary

,

(b) Convergent Boundary

,

(c) Divergent Boundary

• Mountains

• mid-ocean ridge

• volcanoes

• Earthquakes (Transform)

• Earthquakes (Divergent)

• trenches

• Earthquakes (Converegent)

• Fault

• forms new crust

• rift valley

• subduction

What type of boundary is located between Nazca and Pacific Plate?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When a continental crust and continental crust collide it produces a......

• mid-ocean ridge

• deep ocean trench

• volcanic mountain range

• folded mountain range

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? 

• oceanic
• continental
• neither
• both

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3