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Study Guide
Dynamic Earth/Plate Tectonics
The following is a list of questions that will help you study for the test.
Students who take the time to look up each answer should do well.
1. What is a geologist?
2. How do geologists study the inside of the Earth?
3. Describe the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust.
4. What happens the temperature and pressure as you go deeper into the Earth?
5. What is the lithosphere?
6. What is the asthenosphere?
7. What are convection currents? In which layers of the earth are they found?
8. What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
9. Who is Alfred Wegener?
10. What did Wegener name the “Supercontintent”?
11. What evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?
12. Why didn’t scientists believe Wegeners theory?
13. What is the mid-ocean ridge? What happens there?
14. What did scientists use to map the ocean floor?
15. What is Sea-Floor spreading?
16. What evidence is there for sea-floor spreading?
17. What is subduction? Where does it happen?
18. Describe the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
19. Describe convergent, divergent and transform boundaries.
20. What controls plate movement?
21. Which plate do we live on?
22. What is the name of the fault that separates the Pacific Plate from the North American
Plate?