Tectonic Plates

Question 1

What drives the movement of tectonic plates

Answer 1

Convection currents

Question 2

What are three plate boundaries

Answer 2

Spreading
Collision
Parallel

Question 3

What are three sub-types of CONVERGENT plate boundaries

Answer 3

Ocean vs. ocean
Ocean vs. continental
Continental vs. continental

Question 4

What is an example of an island arc

Answer 4

Japan

Question 5

Volcanoes on a land mass occur from what plate boundary

Answer 5

Ocean vs. continental

Question 6

What plate boundary formed the Himalayas

Answer 6

Continental vs. continental

Question 7

What is the San Andreas fault line from

Answer 7

Transform boundary

Question 8

What are hot spots?

Answer 8

A place where magma can break through and then cools and creates islands

Question 9

What are tectonic plates made of

Answer 9

Lithosphere

Question 10

What do the plates float on

Answer 10

Asthenosphere

Question 11

Why does asthenosphere move

Answer 11

Convection currents

Question 12

How far do the plates move every year

Answer 12

2-10cm

Question 13

What is converging

Answer 13

Colliding

Question 14

What is diverging

Answer 14

SEPARATION

Question 15

What is transform

Answer 15

Sliding past

Question 16

What are the MAJOR plates

Answer 16

African 
North American
South American 
Indo-Australia
Antarctic
Eurasia
Pacific

Question 17

Describe the landform made with ocean ocean

Answer 17

Underwater volcanoes/island arc

Question 18

What landform is made with continent continent

Answer 18

Mountains

Question 19

What landform is made with ocean continent

Answer 19

Land volcanoes