Plate Tectonics Review

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

• transform

• convergent

• Divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What parts of the Earth make up the lithosphere?

Group of answer choices

• inner and outer core

• crust and upper mantle

• asthenosphere and mesosphere

• crust only

Which of these statements best describes the Lithosphere?

• hard or rigid

• has convection currents

• is the densest layer

• is at the center of the Earth

How do tectonic plates (lithospheric plates) move?

• wind currents from the air push on the plates

• convection currents in the outer core

• convection currents in the asthenosphere

• tectonic plates do not move

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which statement best describes convection currents?

• hotter and cooler material rise together and then sink together

• hotter material sinks and cooler material rises

• cooler material expands and rises

• hotter material rises and cooler material sinks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Where do most geological events, like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, occur?

• in the middle of the ocean

• at hot spots

• along tectonic plate boundaries

• on top of mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When two plates move apart, what type of boundary forms?

• neutral

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What feature can form from a continental plate converging with another continental plate?

• a trench

• non-volcanic mountain range

• volcanoes

• mid-ocean ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Earthquakes occur at what type boundary/boundaries?

• convergent, divergent,transform

• convergent and divergent

• convergent

• divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Subduction and the forming of trenches happens at what type boundary/boundaries?

• convergent,divergent,transform

• convergent and divergent

• convergent

• divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3