Plate Tectonics Review Questions- Test 11/20/2014 part 1

Question 0

Boundary where new crust is formed

Answer 0

Divergent

Question 1

Upper crust and mantle broken into pieces

Answer 1

Tectonic plates

Question 2

Soft layer of earth that has convection currents and causes plates to move

Answer 2

Mantle

Question 3

Proposed continental drift theory

Answer 3

Alfred Wagner

Question 4

Large mass or supercontinent meaning “all land”

Answer 4

Pangea

Question 5

Boundary where plates move apart

Answer 5

Divergent

Question 6

Uppermost layer of mantle that is made up of tectonic plates

Answer 6

Lithosphere

Question 7

Boundary where plates collide

Answer 7

Convergent

Question 8

Plates slide past each other (boundary)

Answer 8

Transform

Question 9

Area where one plate slide under another

Answer 9

Subduction Zone

Question 10

Main driving force of moving plates

Answer 10

Convection currents

Question 11

Two types of crust

Answer 11

Oceanic and continental

Question 12

Outer core’s state of matter

Answer 12

Liquid

Question 13

Sea floor spreading (creating new crust) happens on which boundary?

Answer 13

Divergent boundary

Question 14

Convection currents in mantle are caused by heat from which layer?

Answer 14

The Core

Question 15

Inner core state of matter

Answer 15

Solid

Question 16

At what boundary is a subduction zone or trench?

Answer 16

Convergent

Question 17

Fit like puzzle

Answer 17

Maybe Continents

Question 18

Semi- solid layer of the mantle

Answer 18

Asthenosphere

Question 19

Forms when oceanic and continental crust collide

Answer 19

Trench

Question 20

Occurs when plates slide past each other

Answer 20

Earthquakes

Question 21

Forms when oceanic crust moves away from each other

Answer 21

Ocean ridges

Question 22

Forms when continental crusts move away from each other

Answer 22

Rift Valley

Question 23

Give three reasons why the earth’s core is so hot.

Answer 23

Remnant heat (heat left over when the earth was formed), frictional heat (denser core material sinking to the center of the planet), and radioactive decay (heat from the decay of radioactive elements)

Question 24

Increase as you travel further into the earth’s mantle and core

Answer 24

Pressure and temperature

Question 25

Philippian plate

Answer 25

Australian

Question 26

Pacific plate

Answer 26

Juan De Fuca

Question 27

North American

Answer 27

Caribbean plate, Cocos plate, Nazca plates

Question 28

South American

Answer 28

Scotia, Antarctic

Question 29

African, Arabian

Answer 29

Indian, Eurasian