Tectonic Plates + Scientific Method

Question 1

Hypothesis

Answer 1

A testable conjecture about how something works/relationship between variables. EX: “When ___ does this, ___ will do this”

Question 2

Scientific Method

Answer 2

An objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes.

Question 3

Variable

Answer 3

Any category, conditions, factors, or traits that differ in the natural world or experimental situations .

Question 4

What would increase the reliability of an experiment?

Answer 4

Duplicating the experiment under ideal conditions and getting the same result.

Question 5

Null hypothesis

Answer 5

A prediction that there is no difference between groups or conditions, or a statement or idea that can be falsified, or proven wrong.

Question 6

Independent variable

Answer 6

What treatments you will apply/what you will change. Factors trying to study (manipulated).

Question 7

Dependent variable

Answer 7

Data you will collect/ what you will measure

Question 8

Constants

Answer 8

What will stay the same for all groups

Question 9

What happens when two tectonic plates collide at a subduction zone

Answer 9

One plate is used beneath the other, and a trench is formed (or volanco).

Question 10

Explain how subduction leads to volcanic activity

Answer 10

Step 1: One plate pushed beneath the other and melted
Step 2: Molten material/magma rises to the surface

Question 11

Explain how a tsunami is generated at a subduction zone.

Answer 11

An earthquake occurs underwater (due to plate movement) and water is displaced rapidly.

Question 12

Describe what happens to the tectonic plates along a transform boundary the moment when an earthquake occurs

Answer 12

A large amount of energy is released (or) plates suddenly/rapidly slide past each other in opposite directions

Question 13

What happens to tectonic plates at transform boundaries between earthquakes?

Answer 13

Faults lock up/bind up, and pressure builds overtime

Question 14

Hot spots are

Answer 14

Stationary. Island chains are formed as oceanic plates move across them (volcanic arcs formed on land with continental plates).

Question 15

Collision zone

Answer 15

Area where two continental plates are pushed together and the colliding forces push up the crust to from a mountain range.

Question 16

Earthquakes are common in

Answer 16

fault zones, which occur at transform boundaries

Question 17

The ring of fire occurs at

Answer 17

the pacific plate

Question 18

The mid-atlantic ocean ridge occurs at

Answer 18

the divergent boundary between both the North American and Eurasian plate and the South American and African plate

Question 19

The Himalayan mountains occur at

Answer 19

the continental to continental convergent boundary between the Eurosian and Indonesian plate

Question 20

The Great Rift Valley in Eastern Africa occurs at

Answer 20

The continental to continental divergent boundry between the Somali and Nubian (African) plate

Question 21

The Andes mountains occur at

Answer 21

The converging continental to oceanic boundary (which creates a subduction zone) between the Nazca and South American plate.

Question 22

The Mariana trench occurs at

Answer 22

The converging oceanic to oceanic boundary between the Phillipinic and Pacific plate.

Question 23

The Red sea occurs at

Answer 23

The diverging oceanic to oceanic boundary between the African and Arabian plate

Question 24

The San Andreas fault in California occurs at

Answer 24

The transform continental to continental boundary between the pacific and North American plate.

Question 25

The Tonga trench occurs at

Answer 25

The convergent oceanic to oceanic boundary (causing a subduction zone) between the Pacific and Indo-Australian plate

Question 26

The Queen Charlotte fault occurs at

Answer 26

The transform continental to oceanic boundary between the North American and Pacific plate

Question 27

Which countries receive a lot of earthquake activity?

Answer 27

Haiti and Mexico. Aleutian Islands.

Question 28

Haiti and Mexico receive what kind of activity?

Answer 28

Seismic activity - earthquakes