Download Plate Tectonic Booklet (test make up)

Plate Tectonics Test Make-Up Assignment
Plate Tectonics booklet
Name: ____________________________ Block: _________
It is important that you LEARN the content objectives, you will be tested on this again!!!
Construct a booklet to cover the following: Please use complete sentences in your booklet.
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Name, class block, and title: Plate Tectonics
Earth’s layers:
 Illustrate and label Earth’s Layers
 Describe the composition of each layer
Convection Currents
 Draw and explain what happens in a convection current
 What layer of Earth has convection currents?
 What effect do convection currents have on Earth’s crust?
Continental Drift
 List Alfred Wegener’s evidence for his Continental Drift Theory
 What is the name if the super-continent, how long ago was it?
Convergent Boundaries (Subduction and Collision)
 Draw each type of convergent boundary, use arrows for
direction, label the type of crust on each drawing
 Identify the features associated with each type of convergent
boundary (Ex: earthquakes, volcanoes, trenches, mountains, etc.)
Divergent Boundaries
 Draw a divergent boundary, use labels and arrows
 Identify the features associated with divergent boundaries
 Identify 2 examples of divergent boundaries on Earth
Sliding/Transform:
 Draw a Sliding/Transform boundary, use labels and arrows
 Identify the features associated with transform/sliding
boundaries
 Identify a Sliding/Transform boundary in the United States
Ring of Fire:
 What is the ring of fire? Where is it located?
 Explain how a Tsunami forms
Volcanoes:
 Where are 3 places volcanoes form?
 Draw, describe and label the 4 types of volcanoes and (including
the type of eruption)
Earthquakes:
 Identify and describe the different types of seismic waves
 Illustrate the focus and epicenter
 Describe how to find the epicenter
Mountains/Faults:
 Draw and describe the 4 types of faults
 Draw and describe the 4 types of mountains
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