Describe Tectonic Plate Boundaries Around the World

What type of convergent boundary is pictured?

• convergent- oceanic & continental

• convergent- subduction zone

• convergent- continental & continental

• convergent- sea floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Identify the Major Plate labeled B

• African Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Eurasian Plate 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Base your answer to the following question on the cross section of two crustal plates and the boundary between them shown below. The arrows indicate the direction of the rock movement. The mid oceanic ridge portion of this cross section best represents a

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Subduction area

• Transform boundary

The model below shows two continental plates. The folded mountains in this model form at which type of plate boundary?

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Subduction boundary

• Convergent boundary

The volcanoes formed in this model was formed by ______.

• A divergent boundary

• A convergent boundary

• A transform boundary

• Sea floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Label the diagram.

b

c

d

e

a

mid-ocean ridge

volcanic mountain range

magma rising

ocean trench

subduction zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Identify this geologic feature

• sea floor spreading from divergent boundary

• rift valley from convergent boundary

• subduction zone from convergent boundary

• crust destroyed from transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the feature formed at a continent-continent convergent boundary?

• Suture zone

• Deep ocean trench

• Mountain ranges

• Volcanic mountain chain

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?

• volcanic island chains in the ocean

• large volcanic mountain ranges on the land and deep trenches in the ocean

• moutain ranges in the ocean and trenches on land

• an underwater mid-ocea ridge and rift valley on the land