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Chapter 10 Study Guide
Define:
1. Asthenosphere
2. Lithosphere
3. Paleomagnetism
4. Rifting
5. Rift Valley
6. Accretion
7. Trench
8. Subduction
9. Mid-ocean Ridge
10. Terrane
11. Supercontinent Cycle
12. Fracture Zone
13. Ring of Fire
14. Identify three different ways climate is affected by plate tectonics.
15. Complete this table
Cause for plate
movement
Convection
Cell
Description of what happens
Where it happens
In the mantle layer of
the earth; below the
lithosphere (under the
plates)
Slab Pull
Ridge Push
16. What was the name of the supercontinent? When did it last form? When did it break apart? When will it
form again?
16. How are tectonic plate boundaries identified?
17. Big Idea
What is it?
When?
The hypothesis that all the land was once connected as a giant
landmass that broke apart into the continents which have moved to
present locations
1950
Continental
Drift
Who
proposed
it?
Sea Floor
Spreading
Plate
Tectonics
J. Tuzo
Wilson
18. Match each of the following terms or descriptions to one of the big idea processes; continental drift, sea
floor spreading, or plate tectonics.
a. magma rises at a rift valley
b. plates move as fast as a fingernail grows
c. matching rock formations
d. convergent, divergent, transform
e. oceanic rock is young
f. paleomagnetism
g. fossils
h. coal
19. Describe what happens when different types of lithosphere collide and why.
20. Boundaries
Transform
Divergent
Plate Movement
What it does to
the lithosphere
Together
Nothing
What features
form as a result
Examples
19. Label the diagram
Convergent
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Iceland
M.O.R.
Rift Valley