Download Lithospheric Plates Worksheet

Lithospheric Plates Worksheet
(Use the map you labeled and colored on the back and your notes to answer questions)
1. List the seven major plates.
List the eight minor plates.
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2. What type of movement is a divergent boundary?
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a. What two structures can form from a divergent boundary?
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3. What type of movement is a convergent boundary?
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a. What two structures can form from a convergent boundary?
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4. On what plate is most of the United States? _______________________________________________
5. What plate is the United Kingdom located? _______________________________________________
6. Name four lithospheric plates that consist of only oceanic crust?
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7. What plate is Hawaii found on? ________________________________________________________
8. List the four plates make up the Mid-Atlantic ridge. (think: where is the middle of the Atlantic ocean)
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9. Which continent has neither plate margins running through it nor margins along its edges? _________________
10. Which country is found in both the North American plate and the Eurasian Plate? _________________
11. Which plate closely matches with the “ring of fire”? ____________________________
12. Where do you find most plate boundaries?
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13. What major plate is the largest? ____________________________
14. What minor plate is the smallest? ____________________________
15. What type of plate boundary forms the mid-Atlantic ridge? ____________________________
16. What type of plate boundary runs through southern California and Baja California? _______________