Read the Map
Plate Types
Events and Landforms
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Identify the plate labeled C
What is the Pacific Plate?
100
Large pieces of the Lithosphere that move around on top of the Asthenosphere are called this.
What are Tectonic Plates?
100
This catastrophic event can happen due to friction along a Transform boundary
What is an Earthquake?
100
A region of the Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet and the old dense crust is sucked under the new less dense crust.
What is the Subduction Zone?
100
The tectonic plate that is covered completely with water and does not have a major land mass.
What is the Pacific Plate?
200
Identify the Plate Labeled G
What is the Antarctic Plate?
200
The type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
What are divergent plates?
200
Continental-Continental plate collisions produce this.
What are Tall Mountain Ranges?
200
The amount of matter in a given space or volume; oceanic crust is thinner but has more matter than continental crust.
What is Density of Plates?
200
The Ocean that contains the Ring of Fire
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Identify the Plated labeled D.
What is the South American Plate?
300
The type of plate boundary where two land based plates come together.
What is a Continental-Continental Convergent Boundary?
300
These are formed when two tectonic plates move together forming folds in the land over long periods of time.
What are Continental Mountain Ranges?
300
These are formed from new crustal material at diverging oceanic plate boundaries.
What are spreading ridges?
300
The most likely result of one tectonic plate being forced under another tectonic plate.
What is an Earthquake?
400
Identify the plate labeled B.
What is the Eurasian plate?
400
The type of plate boundary where two plates rub side by side against each other.
What is a transform boundary?
400
The event in which molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of Earth as ash, lava, and gases
What is a volcanic eruption?
400
The place where two different plates have contact
What is a plate boundary?
400
The name of this Super Continent.
What is Pangae?
500
Identify the plate labeled F.
What is the Indo-Australian Plate?
500
When a land plate and an ocean plate come together
What is a continental-oceanic convergent boundary?
500
The horseshoe-like shaped area that contains approximately 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire.
500
A depression of Earth's surface in which an ocean lies.
What is an Ocean Basin?
500
The reason why Earth's Geography has changed.
What is tectonic movement?