Plate Boundaries

How do scientists know the speed and direction of the tectonic plates?

• an educated guess

• GPS

• motion detectors

• eyewitness reports

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• sergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What two crustal features occur near every subduction zone?

• Volcanoes and Trenches

• Rift Valleys and Mid Ocean Ridges

• Volcanoes and Rift Valleys

• Mid Ocean Ridges and Trenches

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A divergent boundary on land creates what feature?

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Subduction Zone

• Deep Ocean Trench

A divergent boundary in the ocean creates what feature?

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Deep Ocean Trench

• Subduction Zone

When two continental plates converge (collide) what type of crustal feature is formed?

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Subduction Zone

• Rift Valley

• Folded Mountains

The process that occurs at a divergent oceanic boundary that creates new crust (sea floor) is called?

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Volcanism

Aside from Earthquakes, what is the only thing you will find at transform boundaries?

• Volcanoes

• Subduction Zones

• Folded Mountains

• Fault lines

The point where one plate slides beneath another is known as the ______________.

• lithosphere

• Pangaea

• subduction zone

• tectonic

• Wegener