Plate Tectonics
Plate Boundaries
Land Formations
Types of Crust
Staar Questions
100
Tectonic plates are found on which layer -
Lithosphere
100
What are the names of the three boundaries?
Convergent, Transform, Divergent
100
When two plates collide with each other
Mountains
100
Identify types of crust
Oceanic-Oceanic, continental-continental, oceanic-continental
100
Continental Divergent will create which land formation
Rift Valley
200
Who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift?
Alfred Wenger
200
When two plates are colliding?
**Draw the arrows**
Convergent
200
When two plates go away from each other
ocean basins (seafloor spreading), rift valley
200
When two plates collide and create a mountain. What are the types of crust involved?
Continental-Continental
200
What is happening in the mantle?
Convection Currents
300
South Korea is located in which tectonic plate?
A. North American Plate
B. South American Plate
C. Eurasian Plate
D. Indo-Australian Plate
Eurasian Plate
300
When plates are sliding past each other
**Draw the arrows**
Transform
300
Subduction is when one plate goes underneath under - which is part of convergent plate boundary. What type of geologic events are created?
volcano, volcano islands
300
Why does the oceanic plate subduct versus the continental plate?
The oceanic plate is more dense.
300
What plate boundary is happening here?
Transform.
400
Texas is located in which tectonic plate?
A. North American Plate
B. South American Plate
C. Eurasian Plate
D. Indo-Australian Plate
North American Plate
400
When plates are going away from each other
**Draw the arrows**
Divergent
400
When two plates slide past each other
Fault line, earthquakes
400
Oceanic Divergent will create which land formation
Mid-Ocean Ridge
400
What are the plates doing to create mountains. 
Coming together or Convergent boundary
500
What mechanism causes the plates to move?
Convection Currents
500
When one plate goes underneath another - what is the type of plate boundary?
**Draw the arrows**
Subduction Zone, convergent boundary?
500
The San Andreas Fault Line will have what kind of plate boundaries.
**Draw the arrows** or show with hands
"sliding past each other"
500
Oceanic - Oceanic Convergent will create which land formation
Subduction Volcanic Island Arc
500
The great African rift is an example of what boundary. What kind of crusts are involved?
Continental- Continental Divergent Boundary.