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Review Sheet for Plate Tectonics Test
Think About the Past:
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How many protons are in the atom to the right?
What element is it?
What is the atomic number of the element to the right?
How is the periodic table arranged?
Zn + 2HCl  ZnCl2 + H2
Zn
H
Cl
5. Fill out the chart to the left.
6. Is the equation balanced?
7. How many atoms of Hydrogen are on the
product side?
8. Why must there be the same number of
atoms on each side of the equation?
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Continental Drift:
9. Who came up with theory of
continental drift?
10. List 5 proofs that the continents were
once all together.
11. Why was Wegner not believed?
12. Explain why fossils of the Glossopteris, a tropical plant, were discovered in
Antarctica?
Layers of the Earth:
13. Label the layers of the earth.
14. What happens to temperature and density
uppermost part of
as you go from the surface of the Earth to
mantle and crust
the core?
Somewhat soft part
of mantle on which
the plates float
15. What layer includes the crust and the
upper most part of the mantle?
16. What is the uppermost most part of the
mantle that the plates float on?
Plate Tectonics:
17. What is the theory of plate tectonics?
18. The proof that plates were moving was discovered
when sonar technology discovered the mid ocean ridge.
What is the mid ocean ridge?
19. Where is the longest chain of mountains in the world?
20. What is happening at the mid ocean ridge?
21. Where are the youngest rocks in the ocean found?
22. Where are the oldest rocks in the ocean found?
23. What causes the plates to move?
24. What is the most frequent cause of major earthquakes?
25. How fast do the plates move?
26. Geologists say that the mantle has the consistency of a solid, but flows like a liquid.
This is called __________.
27. Fill in the boxes below.
Boundary:
Effect:
Boundary:
Effect:
Boundary:
Effect:
Stress:
Stress:
Stress:
28. The oceanic plate is
below the continental plate in a convergent
boundary because the oceanic plate is
dense then the continental plate.
When this happens, the oceanic plate returns to the
.
29. Why does subduction not occur when two continental plates converge?
30. What land feature is created during the collision of two continental crustal plates?
31. Though hurricanes can cause great damage to barrier islands, what usually forms
and erodes them?
32. What is formed when a river slows down and deposits sediment as it enters the sea?
Plate Boundaries:
33. What type of boundary is occurring between the African Plate and Antarctic Plate?
34. What type of land feature would you see where the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate
meet?
35. What would happen to that land feature over time to slow or stop the increase in
elevation?
36. What is happening to the Nazca Plate as it runs into the South American Plate?
37. How are volcanoes created at plate boundaries like the one in #36 above?
Mapping:*take a good look at how the side and upper views compare*
1. What do contour lines represent on a topographic map?
2. What do contour lines that circle up represent?
3. What do close together contour lines represent?
B
A
continuing to increase as the plates collide?
4. Look at the horizontal view.
Which hill is higher?
5. What direction is the river
flowing on Able Hill?
6. Would you rather walk up the
south side or the east side of
Baker Hill? Why?
38. 7. If these mountains are
formed at a convergent
boundary, what would explain
why their elevation is not
45. Using the scale below calculate how far it is from A to B on the map.
l______l
1 mile