Download Plate Tectonics Video Quiz

Plate Tectonics Video Quiz
Name _____________________________ Period ______ Date ____________________
Video Review: During the course of the program, answer the “You Decide” questions
as they are presented in the video.
You Decide:
A. What is the longest mountain range in the world?
B. What is a tectonic plate?
C. What force formed these volcanic mountains?
D. Where is most of earth’s new crust found?
Video Quiz: Use the following words to fill in the blanks below.
subduction
separating
convergent
drift
mid-ocean
younger
transform
crust
Pacific
mid-Atlantic
1. Wegner introduced the idea of continental ____________________.
2. Maps from the ocean floor revealed that ____________________ ridges form the
longest mountain range in the world – over 80,000 kilometers in length.
3. Oceanic rocks are ____________________ than rocks on continents.
4. Sea-floor spreading is the process of plates ____________________.
5. Tectonic plates consist of the ____________________ and the upper mantle.
6. The largest plate is the ____________________ plate.
7. A ____________________ boundary occurs where two plates collide.
8. ____________________ occurs when one plate thrusts under another.
9. The San Andreas Fault is a ____________________ fault.
10. Iceland straddles the ____________________ ridge.