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Plate Tectonics Notes
The Theory of Plate Tectonics is:
The Asthenosphere is located:
The Continental Crust is mostly made of _____________________________________
The Oceanic Crust is mostly made up of______________________________________
What is the Lithosphere?
The lines of Earthquakes on a map help us define _______________________________
The Ring of Fire is located
The plates move because of ___________________________________within the Earth.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
________________________________Is the man who first proposed this theory in 1912
_______________________________Is a “supercontinent” that existed about 200 – 300 million
years ago.
What was the Earth like “Before Pangaea”?
The three types of evidence for these two theories are:
1.
2.
3.
The three different types of plate movements are…
1._____________________ 2.______________________3.______________________
Draw a convergent plate movement.
Give an example of a specific land feature that was formed from converging plates.
Draw a diverging plate movement.
Give an example of a specific land feature that was formed from diverging plates.
________________________ occurs at diverging plates in the Atlantic Ocean, where new earth is
being formed.
Draw a transform boundary
Give an example of a specific land feature that was formed from transforming plates.
________________________occur at the center of plates, where magma is close to the earth’s
surface.
Give two examples of places where hot spots occur in the United States.