Plate Tectonic Retest

The African plate and the Arabian plate are both thick crust that is not dense. They are diverging along their shared boundary. What land form has been created along that boundary? Use map 1

• Ocean Trench
• Mountains
• Mid Ocean Ridge
• Rift Valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Where is the Ring of Fire located? Use map 2

• It is located along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• It surrounds the Pacific & Nazca plates
• It is on the western side of the Indo-Australian plate?
• It surrounds the South American plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which is the best evidence that the continent were once connected?

• Multiple maps of Pangaea have been discovered

• Alfred Wegener wrote a book stating that the continents were connected

• Identical fossils can be found on different continents

• Mountains have formed along convergent boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which term has the same meaning as the term "ocean basin volcanoes"?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Ocean Trench

• Subduction Zone

• Convergent Boundary

There is a chain of volcanic islands off the coast of Alaska. Which statement best describes what created them? Use map 3

• A convergent boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate
• A divergent boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate
• A divergent boundary between two oceanic plates
• A convergent boundary between two continental plates

The term 'sea floor spreading' is best used to describe...

• the submergence of one plate beneath the other

• plates sliding past one another to create a fault line

• the gradual erosion of beaches caused by hurricanes

• lateral expansion along a mid-ocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which types of tectonic activity creates new crust?

• Divergent Boundaries between continental crust

• Convergent Boundaries between continental and oceanic crust

• Divergent Boundaries between oceanic plates

• Subduction Boundaries between continental crust

The San Andreas fault is a transform fault. The map below shows a student's approximation of where the fault line crosses through the United States. Students were asked to make maps predicting which way land would most likely move over thousands of years.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which boundary will cause sea floor spreading? Use map 4

• Nazca Plate & South American Plates
• Indian Plate & Eurasian Plate
• South American Plate & African Plate
• Australian Plate & Pacific Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At which boundary would a subduction zone be found? Use map 4

• Indian & Eurasian Plates
• South American & Nazca Plates
• North American & Pacific Plates
• African & Indian Plates

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1