Plate Tectonics Convergent and Divergent

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island Arc

• Flat land

In which type of boundary do the plates move away from each other?

• convergent

• normal

• divergent

• transform

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• detergent

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano

• Mountain

• Rift

• Island Arc

The process by which one lithospheric plate is forced under another

• Radiation

• Convection

• Conduction

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

• along the continents

• at the mid ocean ridges

• deep ocean trenches

• at north and south poles

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is one piece of evidence of seafloor spreading? 

• age of the rocks

• old rock pushes new rock to the side

• scientist can use sonar

• subduction

Which ocean is expanding due to a mid-ocean ridge (divergent boundary)?

• Indian

• Dead Sea

• Atlantic

• Artic

The theory that giant pieces of the Earth move over time is called

• plate tectonics

• tectonic plates

• seismology

• cryptozoology

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The area where two plates move toward each other is called a ______________ plate boundary.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• plate tectonics