Landforms and Plate Tectonics

The "diving" of a dense plate underneath a less dense plate at a convergent boundary is known as:

• subtraction

• density

• volcanoes

• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of plate boundary is shown?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is shown

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of boundary is shown?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When this occurs, new crust is added to the ocean floor

• sea-floor spreading

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

The San Andreas Fault, where strong earthquakes occur, is an example of a

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Mid-ocean ridges are underwater mountains that form at which type of plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Compression

Which landform is being formed in this diagram?

• Island arc volcano

• Ocean trench

• Rift valley

• Folded mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What would most likely explain the movement of this fence?

• The fence runs across a transform boundary

• The fence runs across a convergent boundary

• The fence runs across a divergent boundary

• The fence runs close to a volcano

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which TWO landforms are created when a dense oceanic plate subducts under a continental plate, melting the crust and forcing magma up through the surface?

• Volcanic island arc

• Continental volcanic arc

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Ocean Trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1