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Study Guide for Plate Tectonics Assessment
Below are questions related to the content you need to know for the post assessment for HS-ESS2-1 and
HS-ESS2-3.
1. What is the differences between continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanicoceanic collisions? Northward movement of India into Eurasia
2. What is a rift zone?
3. What is the difference between divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries?
4. What is a Curie Point?
5. What is a hot spot?
6. How do magnetic reversals relate to seafloor spreading? Linear magnetic patterns associated with
mid-ocean ridges are configured as normal and reversed magnetized strips roughly parallel to the
ridge.
7. You need to know what “modern” evidence is used to support the Theory of Plate Tectonics. Hot
spots, ocean floor drilling, and paleomagnetism
8. What type of plate boundary is the Red Sea?
9. What formed the Hawaiian Islands? Shield volcanoes fed by a long-lived hot spot below the Pacific
lithospheric plate.
10. What type of rock forms the Oceanic Plates? What type of rock forms the Continental Plates?
11. Where does new ocean crust form during seafloor spreading? Divergent boundaries by
submarine (underwater) eruptions and intrusions of basaltic magma.
12. Where does old oceanic crust get removed? Subduction zones along plate boundaries…
13. What forms ocean trenches? Sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone
14. An important fundamental assumption underlying the plate tectonic theory is that Earth’s
__diameter_________________ has remained constant over time.
15. How did Mount St. Helens and the other Cascade volcanoes on the North-western coastline of
the United States form? Young, active, stratovolcanoes built on a continental margin above a
subduction zone where ocean meets continent.
16. How did the volcanoes and rift valleys of East Africa form? Continental rift alowhich parts of the
African continent are beginning to slowly separate.
17. How do Island Arcs form? Convergent boundary on a volcanic island arc above a northwardsubducting Pacific plate.
18. Where did the Aleutian Islands form? Convergent boundary on a volcanic island arc above a
northward Pacific plate.
19. What is the most common way of finding out where the plate boundaries are located? Lines of
earthquake epicenters most effectively outline the edges of the lithospheric plates.
20. What ocean are ocean trenches most abundant?
21. Who first related the symmetrical magnetic patterns in seafloor basalts to seafloor spreading at a
mid-ocean ridge?
22. What did the results of the Deep Sea Drilling Project clearly justify?
23. The west coast of South America is what kind of plate boundary?
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