Topographic Maps & Plate Tectonics

Earth's crust is broken up into several large rocky pieces called ...

• tectonic plates

• fossils

• faults

• ridges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of plate boundary is pictured?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is happening at the trench?

• subduction

• transformation

• seafloor spreading

• divergency

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Forms where plates move away from each other

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

Forms where plates are colliding

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tectonic plates consist of

• continental crust

• continental and oceanic crust

• oceanic crust

The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of

• continental drift

• magnetic reversal

• global positioning

• oceanic drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What happened first continental drift or plate tectonics?

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• to rotation of the Earth

• the gravity of the core

• convection currents in the asthenosphere

• conduction of the lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. Which statement BEST describes what is happening.

• 
  the oceanic crust making a fault

• volcanic islands are diverging towards each other

• the denser ocean crust is subducting under the less dese ocean crust

• the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2