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Chapter 13 Plate Tectonics Review
Exercise 1: For each of the following, choose one of the four terms that best relates to the single term in
the same way the pair of terms relate to each other. Circle the correct answer.
1.
Rigid piece of curst : Plate
Movement: Rising, sinking, tectonics, uplift
2.
Lithosphere : Solid
3.
Warm : Rising
4.
Converging : Uplift
Subduction: Trenches, volcanoes, rift valley, wrench fault
5.
Converging : Uplift
Mid-ocean ridge: Trenches, volcanoes, rift valley, wrench fault
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Plate boundary: Earthquake
Subduction zone: Uplift, rift valley, volcanoes, wrench fault
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Shallow earthquake : Sliding
Deep earthquake: Converging, diverging, sliding, subduction
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Eroded sediment : Coastal
Asthenosphere: Flexible, plastic, elastic, immoavable
Cool: Uplift, downward, rising, sinking
Scraped-off sediment: Deep-sea, volcanic, wave-built, precipitated
Exercise 2: For each of the following, choose the phrase in Column B that best describes the term in
Column A
_____ 1.
_____ 2.
Column A
Plates
Lithosphere
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Asthenosphere
Plate boundary
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Magnetic stripping
Heat flow
Mid-ocean ridge
_____ 8.
Converging boundary
_____ 9.
Subduction boundary
_____ 10. Diverging boundary
_____ 11. Sliding boundary
_____ 12. Fault
Column B
a. Zone where one plate plunges below another
b. Changes in magnetic polarity recorded in the
lithosphere
c. Zone where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur
d. Zone where two plates are moving horizontally past
one another
e. Rigid moving pieces of Earth’s crust
f. Zone where two plates are moving apart
g. Zone where two plates are colliding and pushing a
great mountain range upward
h. Single solid layer of the crust and upper mantle
approximately 100km thick
i. Measure of the amount of heat leaving the
lithosphere
j. A crack or break in Earth’s crust
k. A diverging boundary marked by a rift valley
l. Plastic portion of the mantle below the lithosphere
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Exercise 3: Answer the following questions. They are all fair game for the test.
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What is plate tectonics?__________________________________________________________
What are the three layers of the Earth? ______________________________________________
How thick is the ocean crust ______________ and the continental crust? ____________
Which crust type is lighter? ___________________ Older? _____________________
What is the main source of heat inside the Earth? _____________________________________
How is the heat generated inside the Earth transmitted to the surface? ____________________
What causes the plates to move around on the surface? ________________________________
Who is the author of the theory of continental drift? ___________________________________
What three pieces of evidence did this guy use to support his theory?
a. __________________________________
b. __________________________________
c. __________________________________
Since the theory was proposed, three addition pieces of information have been gathered to
support the theory; what are they? Describe them.
a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
c. ________________________________________________________________________
What is a passive plate margin? ____________________________________________________
What is an active margin? _________________________________________________________
What are the four types of active margins?
a. _________________________
b. ______________________________
c. _________________________
d. ______________________________
What type of plate margin/boundary is the:
a. Rift Valley: ___________________
b. San Andreas fault: _____________________
c. East Pacific Rise: _______________
d. Nazca plate vs. S. Amer plate: ____________
e. Mid-Atlantic Ridge: _____________
f. Philippine Islands: ______________________
Which type of plate margin(s)/boundary(s) results in the following. Give Examples.
a. mild earthquakes: ___________________ b. very severe earthquakes: ________________
c. deep earthquakes: ___________________ d. very high mountains: ___________________
e. growth of new plate: _________________ f. fast moving faults: ______________________
g. very deep oceanic trenches: ___________
h. shallow oceanic trenches: _______________
i. Volcanic Island chains: ________________
j. loss of oceanic plate under continents: ______
k. loss of oceanic plate under oceanic plate: ____________________
l. folded mountains: __________________________
What was Pangaea? _____________________________________________________________
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17. What do the following symbols mean?
(a) _____________________
(b) ___________________________
(c) ________________________
18. In which of the above (Question 18) cases are the plates moving
a. apart? ________________________
b. together? _____________________
c. or sliding past each other? ___________________
19. Examine the World map below. Label the plates and label the plate boundaries with the proper
symbols (see question 18).
Plate A: _______________________
Plate B: _______________________
Plate C: _______________________
Plate D: _______________________
Plate E: _______________________
Plate F: _______________________
Plate G: _______________________
Plate H: _______________________
Plate I: ____________________________
Plate J: ___________________________
Plate K: ___________________________
Plate L: ___________________________
Plate M: ___________________________
Plate N: ___________________________
Plate O: ___________________________