CCR and Plate Tectonics

Question 1

What is Conduction and an example?

Answer 1

Touching a hot mug and feeling the heat

Question 2

What is Convection and an example?

Answer 2

Heat transfer through liquid/gas. Warm air rises and Cool air sinks and so on in a cycle. Boiling water.

Question 3

What is Radiation and an example?

Answer 3

Heat transfer through the sun’s electromagnetic waves. A boulder is heating up due to the sun’s rays.

Question 4

Tectonic plates are made of which layer?

Answer 4

The lithosphere

Question 5

The theory of tectonic plates

Answer 5

All the continents were once connected and there was a supercontinent called Pangea. Due to the continental drift due to the tectonic plates the continents separated.

Question 6

Who is Alfred Wegener

Answer 6

He discovered the theory of Continental Drift but no one believed him they only believed him much later

Question 7

Tectonic plates float on which layer

Answer 7

Asthenosphere

Question 8

What type of heat transfer causes the plate to move? Which layer does this occur in?

Answer 8

Convection and The Mantle

Question 9

The supercontinent was called?

Answer 9

Pangea

Question 10

A boundary where two plates pull away from each other

Answer 10

Divergent

Question 11

A boundary where two plates collide

Answer 11

Convergent

Question 12

A boundary when two plates move past each other horizontally.

Answer 12

Transform

Question 13

Boundary when two plates collide and denser oceanic pushed under less dense continental crust?

Answer 13

Convergent Subduction

Question 14

If you were to dig to the center of the Earth in what order would you dig through three major layers.
(Outer to Inner)

Answer 14

Crust - Mantle - Core

Question 15

What geological feature does Divergent boundaries create?

Answer 15

Oceanic Ridge and Basin Formation

A famous one is Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Question 16

What geological feature does Convergent boundaries create?

Answer 16

Mountain Ranges, Islands, and Subduction causes Volcanoes and Trenches

Famous one is the Mariana Trench and the Himalayan mountains

Question 17

What geological feature does Transform boundaries create?

Answer 17

Earthquakes/ Faults

A famous one is The San Andreas Fault

Question 18

Which is more dense Oceanic crust or Continental crust?

Answer 18

Oceanic is more dense which is why it tends to sink.

Question 19

what boundaries create Ilands?

Answer 19

Convergent subduction

Question 20

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Oceanic - Oceanic Divergent creates?

Answer 20

Ocean Ridges

Question 21

Where are divergent boundaries located?

Answer 21

Most divergent boundaries are mostly located at the ocean floor although rift valleys can be located where the continents are separated by plate movement.

Question 22

What forms when two continental plates collide buckling and thickening?

Answer 22

Mountains

Question 23

What liquid does transform boundaries not produce, unlike other plate boundaries?

Answer 23

Magama/Lava

Question 24

Heat always transfers from?

Answer 24

Hot to Cold

Question 25

What geological event occurs when one continental plate and one oceanic plate collide causing magma to rise to the surface?

Answer 25

Volcanoes

Question 26

What forms when one oceanic plate subducts under the younger oceanic plate causing the crust to melt?

Answer 26

Islands