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Plate Tectonics Review Questions
1. What is plate tectonics in your own words?
2. What are the three types of plate boundaries?
a. __________________
b. ______________________
c. _____________________
3. What kind of motion would be expected at a convergent plate boundary?
4. Generally, how fast is the motion of the plates? _______________________________________________
5. What kind of motion would be expected at a transform fault boundary?
6. What drives the motion of the plates?
7. What is the name of the process that occurs at the mid ocean ridge?
8. What kind of motion would be expected at a divergent boundary?
9. Describe what may become of the East African Rift Valley in millions of years.
10. What is happening to Iceland?
11. What is going on in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
12. On average, in ten years, how much bigger will the Atlantic Ocean be? ____________________________
13. How could two plates moving in the same direction cause a transform fault?
14. What is the situation at the San Andreas Fault?
15. What are the three possible types of convergences that can occur when two tectonics plate collide with
one another?
a. __________________
b. ______________________
c. ____________________
Plate Tectonics Review Questions
16. Complete the following chart…
Boundary
Type of Crust
Resulting Feature
Examples
Oceanic-Oceanic
Divergent
Continental-Continental
Oceanic-Continental
Convergent
Oceanic-Oceanic
Continental-Continental
Continental-Continental
Transform
Oceanic-Oceanic
17. How would the behavior of two plates that are said to be along a convergent boundary best be
described?
18. During Oceanic-continental convergence, which plate sinks into the mantle? Why does it do this?
19. Define the word “Subduction.”
20. Explain how oceanic-oceanic convergence differs from oceanic-continental convergence.