Virginia Earth Science-Lithospheric plates

Match the following

• convergent plates

• 
• Subduction zone

• 
• Divergent plates

• 
• Transform plates

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Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An area where two ocean plates converge

• Island arc

• rift valley

• transform plate boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When divergence occurs when a land mass the tension results in the formation of:

• Island arc

• Rift valley

• Transform plate boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The San Andreas fault is a

• Island arc

• Rift valley

• Transform plate boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

As the heat slowly rises through the mantle

• The intrusion of magma into an ocean ridge pushes the plates away

• Heat slowly rises through the mantle to the asthenosphere

• Plates float on the convection currents of the asthenosphere

• Heat is generated by decay of radioactive elements

• the cooling slab of denser oceanic slab sinks into the subduction zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Where is the hot spot where unusually high heat flows

• Oahu

• Moloka

• Maui

• Hawaii

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2