Endogenic Processes I

The Theory of Plate Tectonics

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Direction: For 10 mins, do the following:

1. Watch the short video clip

2. Play the game

3. List questions you wish to clarify to the teacher

Answer the following questions:

What are plates?

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Which tectonic plate interaction caused the island of Iceland?

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Which tectonic plate interaction caused Mount Fuji?

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Which tectonic plate interaction caused Mount Fuji?

Answer: Subduction

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Which tectonic plate interaction caused the San Francisco earthquake?

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Which tectonic plate interaction caused Mount Everest?

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What caused the formation of Hawaiian Islands?

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How does knowing plate interactions affect people's lives?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following refers to large pieces of the lithosphere that float on the asthenosphere?

• asthenosphere

• the mid-ocean ridge

• deep-sea trenches

• tectonic plates

Multiple Choice

The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in which layer of the Earth?

• crust

• outer core

• inner core

• mantle

Multiple Choice

Which of the seven major lithospheric plates consists mostly of oceanic lithosphere?

• Pacific Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• Indo-Australian Plate

• South American Plate

Multiple Choice

Which statement does NOT summarize one of the lines of evidence used by Alfred Wegener to support his theory of continental drift?

• Glacial deposits indicate a different climatic condition.

• Similar fossils are found on widely separated continents.

• Similar geologic formations occur on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

• Bands of rock are older the farther their position from a mid-ocean ridge.

Multiple Choice

What happens at convergent plate boundaries where oceanic and continental crust meet?

• no associated volcanism occurs

• oceanic crust is subducted

• continental crust is subducted

• oceanic crust is created

Multiple Choice

Volcanic island arcs are associated with which of the following?

• transform plate boundaries

• divergent plate boundaries

• ocean-ocean convergent plate boundaries

• ocean-continent convergent plate boundaries

Multiple Choice

Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along which of the following boundaries?

• convergent

• divergent

• magnetic

• transform

Multiple Choice

Seafloor spreading occurs because of which of the following?

• new material is being added to the asthenosphere

• earthquakes break apart the ocean floor

• sediments accumulate at the area of spreading

• molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface