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Name: mods: Objective: To show the rate and direction in which Earth’s lithospheric plates are moving. Make a bar graph with the Tectonic Plate as the independent variable and the velocity as the dependent variable. **Be sure to title your graph and label the x axis and the y axis as well as put in the units where it is appropriate. **Use different colors for different plates so that two colors are not next to each other. Plate Data Answer these questions in complete sentences: 1. Which plate is moving the fastest? ______________________________________________________ 2. Which plate is moving the slowest? ______________________________________________________ 3. What is the average velocity of all the plates together? __________________________________________ 4. What percentage of plates are moving more than 10 cm/yr? ____________________________________ 5. What percentage of plates are moving less than 5 cm/yr? ____________________________________ 6. Why is the North American Plate moving west? Be specific. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 7. If the Nazca Plate is moving east and the South American Plate is moving west, what is happening on the boundary between the two? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What geographic feature is being caused by the collision in question #7? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Why do you think most of the plates are moving north, northwest or west? Give a reasonable answer using your knowledge of plate tectonics. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________