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PLATE TECTONICS STUDY GUIDE!
KEY TERMS: Write the letter of the correct answer on the line.
1. _____ Solid, inner most layer of the Earth.
A. Lithosphere
2. _____ When a solid has the ability to flow.
B. Divergent Boundary
3. _____ Thin outermost layer of the Earth.
C. Plate Tectonics
4. _____ A crack in the Earth’s surface.
D. fold
5. _____ Process when the oceanic plates slide under continental plate.
E. Crust
6. _____ Top most solid part of earth made of crust and mantle.
F. Pangaea
7. _____ The boundary between mantle and outer layer.
G. Moho
8. _____ When tectonic plates collide into eachother.
H. Convergent Boundary
9. _____ When tectonic plates slide past each other.
I. Transform Boundary
10. _____ Layer of the Earth from the crust to the core.
J. Mantle
11. _____ A soft layer of the mantel on which pieces of the lithosphere move.
K. Asthenosphere
12. _____ A bend in a rock.
L. Fault
13. _____ Place where sea-floor spreading takes place.
M. subduction
14. _____ Scientist who proposed the Theory of Plate Tectonics
N. Inner Core
15. _____ Theory that explains the movement of the lithosphere plates.
O. Alfred Wegener
16. _____ Single giant land mass, which broke into large pieces
P. Plasticity
and drifted apart.
13._____ Tectonic plates move away from each other.
Q. Mid-Ocean Ridge
R. Rifting
14. The movement of the ocean floor on either side of a mid-ocean ridge.
FILL IN THE BLANKS:
Which part of the Earth’s layers is filled with iron and probably responsible for the magnetic field?
____________________.
What layer has life on earth? __________________.
Where is the Moho located?______________________________________________________.
The Moho has plasticity, which allows the crust to move slowly over the mantle. What does plasticity
mean? _____________________________________________________________________________.
Describe each of the following plate boundaries and how they move:
CONVERGENT: _____________________________________________________________
DIVERGENT:_______________________________________________________________
TRANSFORM:______________________________________________________________
Describe the three types of stress:
COMPRESSION:___________________________________________________________________.
SHEAR:__________________________________________________________________________.
TENSION:________________________________________________________________________.
True or False: If false write the correct answer.
_______ Tectonic plates are located within the mantle.
_______________________________________________________________________________.
________ The lithosphere contains two types of crust, oceanic and continental.
________________________________________________________________________________.
_________. Earth’s continental crust is thicker and denser than oceanic crust.
________________________________________________________________________________.
________ There are 7 tectonic plates that the lithosphere is divided into.
_________________________________________________________________________________.
Find where we live! What are the three plates closest to our home?
1._________________________
2._____________________
3.____________________
List three types of evidence/clues Alfred Wegener used to develop his theory of Pangea (Hint: Notes,
page 6):
1.______________________________
2.______________________________
3.______________________________