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Review Sheet on Plate Tectonics 1. 2. Name _______________________ Section ______ Date ____________ Identify the type of boundary shown in each diagram in Figure 1 What kind of plate boundaries are formed when convection forces material upward? ________________ 3. What kind of plate boundaries are formed when convection forces material downward? ________________ 4. Use Figure 3 and list of terms to complete the paragraph. You may use some terms more than once. You may not need to use all the terms listed. 5. Name 5 features of the earth that are formed by the movement of lithospheric plates. 6. The theory of Plate Tectonics replaced the theory of ______________________________________ Choose the type of plate boundary in Column B that best matches each description in Column A. Column A _____ 8. The Pacific plate is sliding past the North American plate along the San Andreas fault In the southwestern United States. _____ 9. The Pacific plate is sliding under the South American plate, creating the Andes Mountains. Column B a. divergent boundaries b. transform boundaries c. oceanic/oceanic collisions _____10. The Indian plate is pushing into the Eurasion plate, creating the Himalayan Mountains. _____ 11. The African plate is moving away from the South American plate. d. continental/oceanic collisions e. continental/continental collisions _____ 12. The Pacific plate is sliding under the oceanic crust of Japan, forming an island area. 13. Folded mountains usually form at the edge of a tectonic plate. How can you explain old folded mountain ranges located in the middle of a tectonic plate? 14. List the steps in the sequence of what happened to form the Appalachian Mountains found in Pennsylvania. 15. What are the three types of Mountains?