Tectonic Plates
What is a convergent plate boundary?
When two plates are coming together and collide with each other.
What major landforms are found along the
Pacific Ring of Fire
Volcanoes
What does TEEL stand for?
Topic sentence
Example
Elaboration
Link
What does 'identify' mean?
Establish or indicate what or who something is.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
When plates are moving away from each other.
What caused the Hawaiian Islands to form?
Magma from the hot spot rising up through the weakness of the earth's crust as the plate moves over it.
What does 'explain' mean?
Make an idea clear by describing it in more detail.
What is a transform plate?
When plates are sliding past each other.
Which two plates converged and caused the formation of the Himalayan Mountains?
Eurasian and Indian
What does D.I.E stand for?
Describe
Interpret
Explain
What does 'analyse' mean?
Examine something in order to explain it.
What is a subduction zone? (Hint: You need to include the term heavier and converge in your response)
When a heavier plate slides beneath another plate into the mantle after the plates converge.
Which plates caused the Rocky Mountain Range to form?
North American and Pacific
What does 'describe' mean?
Give a detailed account of something.
What can the movement of tectonic plates cause to happen?
Mountain ranges, volcanoes, earthquakes
Which mountain range was formed at the Nazca and South American plate and which plate movement caused its formation?
The Andes Mountain Range. Caused by convergent plate boundaries where the earth's crust buckled and pushed upwards.
What does BOLTSS stand for?
Orientation
Legend
Title
Scale
Source
What does 'interpret' mean?
Decide what the intended meaning of something is.