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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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In the diagram
to the right, the
arrow is pointing
to which layer
of the Earth?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
In the diagram
to the right, the
arrow is pointing
to which layer
of the Earth?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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In the diagram
to the right, the
arrow is pointing
to which layer
of the Earth?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
4
In the diagram
to the right, the
arrow is pointing
to which layer
of the Earth?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
5
What term is used to describe
the crust and uppermost part
of the mantle?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
What term is used to
describe the upper portion
of the mantle where
convection currents occur ?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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Describe Alfred Wegener’s
Theory of Continental Drift.
What term is used
to describe the
continuous heating
and cooling of
magma within the
mantle?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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What 3 major forms of evidence
did Wegener use to support his
theory of Continental Drift?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
Wegener believed that long
ago all of the continents
were once joined together
as one giant landmass.
What name did he give this
“supercontinent”?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
11
Continental crust is primarily
made up of what type of
rock?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
12
Oceanic crust is primarily
made up of what type of
rock?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
13
The Earth’s crust is broken into
sections called plates. What is
the term used to describe where
one plate comes in contact with
another?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
What type of plate boundary is
shown in the diagram below?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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What type of plate boundary is
shown in the diagram below?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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What type of plate boundary is
shown in the diagram below?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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What type of plate boundary is
shown in the diagram below?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
What type of plate boundary is
shown in the diagram below?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
19
What type of plate boundary is
shown in the diagram below?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
20
The Himalayan Mountain range
was formed by which type of
plate boundary?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
21
The San Andreas Fault in
California was formed along
which type of plate boundary?
Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge formed
along which type of plate
boundary?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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What process in Earth’s mantle
do scientists believe is driving
the movement of the plates?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
24
What event occurs when the
tension built up along Earth’s
plates is released causing one
plate to slip past another?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
25
What type of boundary results in
the formation of new oceanic
crust?
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Plate Tectonics
At which point in the diagram
below would you expect to find
the youngest oceanic crust?
A
B
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
27
What process occurs when one
plate sinks beneath another plate
because it is more dense?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
28
What is a fault? List one
example.
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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Planet Earth and
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Plate Tectonics
What is the arrow pointing to in
the diagram below?
Describe the process of Sea-Floor
Spreading.
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
31
Why did many scientists reject
Wegener’s Theory of Continental
Drift?
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Planet Earth and
Plate Tectonics
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What landform is created when
an oceanic plate and a
continental plate converge?
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