Plate Tectonics Guided Notes

Multiple Choice

Which layer of Earth is broken into plates & is responsible for plate tectonics?

• Crust

• Lithosphere

• Asthenoshpere

• Mantle

Multiple Choice

Alfred Wegener called the single huge continent...

• Pangea

• Earth

• Supercontinent

Multiple Choice

What is the hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, & drifted to their present locations?

• Plate Tectonics

• Pangea

• Continental Drift

• Continental

Multiple Choice

Seafloor spreading is when oceanic plates come together.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A mid-ocean ridge is where new oceanic crust is formed.

• True

• False

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The cycle of creation & destruction of the seafloor is known as the plate tectonics cycle.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Plate tectonics move very quickly. This is something we can see in our lifetime.

• True

• False

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Boundaries are where plate tectonics meet.

• True

• False

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Crust is destroyed at divergent boundaries.

• True

• False

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Crust scrapes past each other in transform boundaries.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Shearing is the force that acts on rock to change its shape.

• True

• False

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Fault is a break in Earth's crust.

• True

• False

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anticline: fold in rock that bends upward into an arch.

• True

• False

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syncline: fold in rock that bends downward to form a valley

• True

• False