What is a zone where tectonic plate move horizontally against each other
100
landforms that occur at convergent boundaries
What are mountains, volcanoes, volcanic arches, and trenches.
100
Large pieces of the Earth’s crust
lithosphere) that move over the
asthenoshpere
What are plates?
100
the name of plate #7
What is the Australian Plate?
100
Name of the scientist that is credited with proposing the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
convergent boundary
What is a location where 2 tectonic plates push against each other
200
landforms that occur at divergent boundaries
What are mid-ocean ridges, deep-sea trenches, rift valleys, and sea-floor spreading?
200
Thick plates made of andesite and
granite that form the continents and are
less dense than oceanic plates.
Examples include the North American
Plate, African Plate, and Antarctic Plate.
What are continental plates?
200
the name of plate #3
What is the South American plate?
200
What is the best title for the table?
a. Mountains of the united States
b. Tallest Mountains
c. Mountains over 4,000 Meters
d. Volcanic Mountains
What is Mountains in the United States?
300
divergent boundary
What is a place where 2 tectonic plates move away from each other
300
landforms that occur when 2 continental plates converge and are pushed up
What are mountains?
300
Thin, but very dense plates that are
made of basalt that form the ocean floor
and are denser than continental plates.
Examples include the Pacific Plate,
Nazca Plate, and Philippine Plat
What are ocean plates?
300
the name of plate #2
What is the North American Plate?
300
Which is the tallest volcanic mountain?
a. Mt. St. Helens
b. Mount Massive
c. Mt. Rainier
d. Clingman’s Dome
What is Mt. Rainier?
400
subduction zone
What is a zone where a denser oceanic plate is pushed under a less dense continental plate?
400
features formed from volcanic rock that was released from fissures located at the mid-oceanic ridges
What is an ocean basin?
400
Structural deformation of the Earth’s
crust
What is tectonics?
400
the name of plate #4
What is the Eurasian Plate?
400
What conclusion can be drawn from the table and the plate tectonic map?
a. Tall mountains only occur close to the edge of a
tectonic plate.
b. Mountains are produced by a variety of tectonic
activity.
c. Volcanoes produce taller mountains than other
tectonic activity.
d. Mountains cannot form at the center of a tectonic
plate.
What is mountains are produced by a variety of tectonic
activity.
500
The name of the sbduction zone where lots of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
How is new crust formed? Where is the newest crust?
When oceanic plates pull apart at divergent boundaries. The newest crust is near the plate boundary.
500
A scientific theory explaining how the
plates move on the Earth’s surface