Fun Facts
This type of crust can collide and produce tall folded mountain ranges.
continental crust
What is the name of the Plate around Africa ?
African Plate
______________ is the name of the theory that explains how continents drift, volcanoes form, and earthquakes occur.
Plate Tectonics
Yes or No Location of volcanic islands can be predicted
yes
What does oceanic plate subduction produce?
volcanism
This type of crust is located beneath continental crust.
oceanic crust
What is the name of the Plate containing Europe ?
Eurasian Plate
When two plates collide it's called?
Convergent Boundaries
When two plates slide past each other it is called ?
Transform boundaries
What can happen when two plates collide ?
an earthquake , mountain building or a volcano erupts
The Earth is broken into many ____________. There are many large ones, and several smaller ones.
Plates
What is the name of the Plate in Antarctica
Antarctica Plate
Who is the name of the scientist who discovered Plate Tectonics ?
Alfred Wegner
This is where most earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
plate boundaries
What can happen when two continental plates pull apart?
rift valley
When Earths plates move, an ______________ occurs.
earthquake
What is the name of the plate in North America ?
The North American Plate
When two plates move apart it's called ?
divergent boundaries
T/F plate tectonics move hundreds of centimeters a year.
False
This plate has a high number of earthquakes and volcanoes, due to many converging boundaries.
Pacific Plate
Youngest ocean floor is found here.
What is the name of the plate in the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Plate
What causes the earth's plates to move ?
convection currents in the mantle
Plates move due to the _____________ current of hot magma moving the lithosphere under the astenosphere.
convection
Plates can move around on the ___________, which is an area just below the lithosphere.
asthenosphere