Earth's Structure and Plate Tectonics

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

Whenever a subduction zone is formed a ______ is formed.

• Mountain
• Island Arc
• Rift
• Volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

What is D?

• magma
• upper mantle
• lava
• convection

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What happens when two oceanic plates move apart from each other?

• A mid-ocean ridge forms
• An underwater volcano forms
• An underwater trench forms
• An oceanic plate subducts a continental plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?

• Africa has always been near the equator
• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
• The continents have not moved
• sea floor spreading

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2