Ocean

What features will be found at a divergent oceanic-oceanic plate boundary

• Rift valley

• Deep Sea Trench, tsunamis and earthquakes

• Mountains and earthquakes

• Mid Ocean ridge

The thickness of sediment on the ocean floor is evidence for ​​​ (a)   .

• Plate Tectonics

• Theory of Pangea

• Continental Drift

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The process that causes magma to rise and fall, moving the lithospheric plates is

• fusion

• convection

• radiation

• conduction

Seafloor spreading

• creates new ocean crust.

• creates new continental crust.

• destroys ocean crust.

• destroys continental crust.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seafloor spreading occurs at

• close to the shorelines.

• the mid-ocean ridge.

• the deepest ocean trench.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Moving crustal plates plunging back into Earth's mantle causes this feature

• deep-ocean trench

• turbidity currents

• continental rise

• submarine canyon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the origin of this sediment? These are tiny shells called "tests." 

• Lithogenous 

• Biogenous 

• Hydrogenous

• Cosmogenous

What is the origin of this sediment? (satellite image of a river draining into an ocean)

• Lithogenous 

• Biogenous 

• Hydrogenous

• Cosmogenous

if more than 30% of an area's sediment is made up of biogenous particles, it is called a(n)

• ooze

• slush

• mud

• silt

Below is quartz. What is the origin of the sediment this will make?

• Lithogenous 

• Biogenous 

• Hydrogenous

• Cosmogenous