Download Earth`s Interior and Plate Tectonics Quiz Review

Earth’s Interior and Plate Tectonics Quiz Review
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Please answer each question completely to show me that you understand the concepts.
Fill in as much as you can from memory, then consult your class materials; ask me for
help if needed.
1. Sketch the layers of the Earth on a separate sheet of paper and attach it to the
review sheet. Make sure you clearly label the following: outer core, inner core,
lithosphere, asthenosphere, upper mantle (specifically showing both parts), lower
mantle, crust. Also review the Pizza Slice Earth lab activity and how we determined
where to mark the boundaries between the layers. Check out the class’s Earth cross
section in the hallway to review the layers.
2. On your Earth’s layers sketch…clearly mark whether each layer is solid, liquid or
plastic along with the composition of each layer.
3. How do scientists know about the inner Earth?
4. What are the lithospheric plates? Explain the mechanism behind their movement
with an explanation coupled with a sketch.
5. Generally how fast do the lithospheric plates move?
6. What are the two types of crust? What are they made of?
7. Review The Earth’s interior graphs and corresponding table. Did you get all the
answers on the table correct? If not, fix your mistakes and turn it back in on quiz
day. You will need to understand how to interpret these graphs for the quiz.
8. List the three types of plate boundaries. Which are constructive boundaries vs.
destructive?
Plate Tectonics Sketches. Explain specifically what happens at each plate boundary. Use
your plate tectonics concept map handout as a guide along with the text and notes.
9. Describe what happens at a divergent ocean-ocean plate boundary. Couple your
explanation with an arrow diagram sketch. (Make sure you label the subduction
zone, the trench, youngest rock and oldest rock.) Give an example of where this
occurs on Earth.
10. Describe what happens at a divergent continent-continent plate boundary. Couple
your explanation with an arrow diagram sketch. (Is there a subduction zone and
trench?) Give an example of where this occurs on Earth.
11. Describe what happens at a convergent ocean-continent plate boundary. Couple
your explanation with an arrow diagram sketch. (Is there a subduction zone and
trench? If so label them). Give an example of where this occurs on Earth.
12. Describe what happens at a convergent ocean-ocean plate boundary. Couple your
explanation with an arrow diagram sketch. (Is there a subduction zone and trench?
If so label them). Give an example of where this occurs on Earth.
13. Describe what happens at a convergent continent-continent plate boundary. Couple
your explanation with an arrow diagram sketch. (Is there a subduction zone and
trench? If so label them). Give an example of where this occurs on Earth.
14. Describe what happens at a transform plate boundary. Couple your explanation with
an arrow diagram sketch. (Is there a subduction zone and trench?). Give an
example of where this occurs on Earth.
15. Describe what paleomagnetism is and how it supports the theory of sea floor
spreading. Couple your explanation with an arrow diagram sketch showing patterns
of normal and reversed polarity.
16. For each of the following locations indicate what type specific type of plate boundary
each is:
Mt. St. Helen’s
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Aleutian Islands
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Hawaiian Islands
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Japanese Islands
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San Andreas Fault
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Himalayas ____________________________________________________________
Atlantic ocean ridges
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Andes Mountains
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17. What is the difference between the theory of plate tectonics and Wegener’s theory
of plate tectonics?
18. Review the sea floor spreading lab table and how you derived each of the numbers
using the graph. Make sure you understand how you converted the numbers from
km to cm and the use of the formula.
19. Review the hot spot lab and how you determined the speed of crustal plate
movement. What is the formula to determine speed?