Download Plate Tectonic Quiz Name: Label the four layers of the Earth Use the

Plate Tectonic Quiz
Name: _____________________
Label the four layers of the Earth
Use the Vocabulary Below to answer the following Questions
Crust
Mantel
Outer Core
Inner Core
5. What layer of the Earth is the most Dense? ____________________
6. What layer is a storage place for magma? _________________
7. What layer makes up the ocean floor? __________________
8. What layer is solid and made up of nickel and iron? ________________
9. What layer has convection currents? ________________
10. What caused the Earth to form different layers? (In complete sentence)
11. Draw arrows to show the type of movement at each boundary type
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Plate Boundaries
12. List all the features you might find at an oceanic-divergent boundary:
13. List the features you would find at a transition boundary:
14. List a major feature you would find at a continental-to-continental convergent boundary:
15. List all the features you would find at a continental-to-oceanic convergent boundary:
16. Describe a minimum of 3 main ideas of the Continental Drift Theory.
17. Draw and label a subduction zone, then describe what it is in writing.
18. Why would you not want to build your home on an active fault line?
19. Keeping in mind how slow tectonic plates collide, what is the risk of building your home where continental
crust collides with oceanic crust?
20. How can a hotspot create a chain of islands?
21. What is the answer to the question that Alfred Wegner could not answer: How do the continents move?
What causes their movement?
Place a letter in each circle on the map
*** There are more than one right answer,
however, I only want one answer per circle***
H
S
E
M
N
Hot Spot
Subduction
Earthquake
Mountain
New Crust forms
(L) Lithosphere
R
O
D
T
Min-Ocean Ridge
Ocean Trench
Divergent
Transform
(T) Tectonic Plates
(H) Hot Spots
(A) Asthenosphere
(M) Mid-Ocean Ridge
____27. The layer in the Earth’s upper mantle in which rock is soft and weak because it is close to melting.
____28. Hawaii is an example of an area where a column of hot material rises from deep within a planet’s
mantle and heats the lithosphere above it. This area is often the cause of volcanic activity.
____ 29. The layer of Earth made up of the crust and the rigid rock of the upper mantle.
____ 30. A long line of sea-floor mountains where new ocean crust is formed by volcanic activity along a
divergent boundary.
____ 31. A word to describe the pieces of the Earth crust that fit together like puzzle pieces.