Boundaries
Plate Tectonics
(Blank)
Locations
Theories
100
The three types of boundaries.
What is convergent, divergent and transform?
100
Type of crust that is thinner than the other.
What is oceanic crust?
100
Type of crust that is thicker than the other.
What is continental?
100
Type of boundary that formed the Himalayan Mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
Theory Harry Hess proposed.
What is seafloor spreading?
200
Type of boundary when crust is destroyed.
What is convergent?
200
Another name for the lithosphere?
What is crust?
200
Two continental plates colliding causes this to form.
What are mountains? (can be folded or faulted)
200
Country split by a divergent boundary, specifically the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What is Iceland?
200
The theory that Alfred Wegener proposed that there was once a supercontinent and continents moved over time.
What is coninental drift?
300
Type of boundary when new crust forms.
What is divergent?
300
This happens when an oceanic plate and continental plate collide (not what forms).
The ocean plate subducts.
300
More dense crust that will subduct.
What is oceanic crust?
300
Famous transform boundary found in the USA.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
300
Name 2 pieces of evidence for Plate Tectonics.
What are same fossil on different continents, same rock type/age, glacial grooves, puzzle fit of continents, DNA?
400
Type of boundary when two plates slide horizontally past each other.
What is transform?
400
This causes plates to move.
What is convection in the mantle?
400
Choose number that would need earthquake resistant technology the most.
400
Finding glacier evidence in Africa is proof of this.
What is continental drift (plates moving, continents having been in vastly differnet places compared to now).
400
Seafloor spreading - tell the age of the crust closest to the boundary and farthest from the boundary.
What is youngest when closest and oldest when farthest away from boundary?
500
Three types of convergent boundaries.
What are continental-continental, oceanic-oceanic, and oceanic-continental?
500
Broken parts of lithosphere that carry continents and oceans.
What are plate tectonics?
500
Landform that forms over a hot spot.
What is an island chain? (Example Hawaiian islands)
500
Landform that is formed by oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries. (name 1)
What is trench, volano, island arc?
500
Two of these would show that there would be evidence of a plate boundary:
1. presence of earthquakes
2. number of hurricanes
3. the age of crust
4. size of region
What is presence of earthquakes and the age of the crust?