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Lithospheric Plate Questions-Use your earthquake map and the plate maps to answer the following.
1.
List the seven major plates. (Yes kids these are the big ones.)
2. List eight minor plates. (Yup the smallest ones.)
3. On what plate is most of the Unites States? What part of the Unites States is NOT on that plate? (think Disneyland) On what plate
is that very small section located? What type of boundary is this?
4. What plate is called the ring of fire? It is where app. 80% of all the Earth’s volcanoes and earthquakes occur?? (So.. where are all
the volcanoes?)
5. What four plates are around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (the mountain chain that runs down the center of the Atlantic Ocean)?
6. List two continents whose edges are not all on plate boundaries. (They are in the middle of the plates.) Are most plate boundaries
at the edge of continents, middle of continents, edge of oceans or other and why do you think that might be?
7. Name two plates that meet at a convergent boundary. What surface feature (landform) is being formed by the convergence
(coming together) of the plates you just named?
8. What plate or plates is your geographic area on(for the project)?
9. What type of boundary or boundaries do you have? What type of geographical features do you think your area has?
10. Speculate on the future sized of the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. What is your evidence for both of your predictions?