Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

Please recall your lesson during the face-to-face classes.​

Objectives

Students are expected to...

Explain how mountains, oceans, seas, rifts, valleys, and volcanoes form using the Plate Tectonics Theory

Explain how earthquakes happen using the Plate Tectonics Theory

​Please rest your eyes for 3 minutes.

Multiple Choice

The earth's outer shell is divided into slabs of rock called ______ .

• continental plates

• crustal plates

• trench plates

• tectonic plates

Multiple Choice

What is the driving force behind the movement of the plates?

Match

Match the following

divergent

convergent

transform

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

Match

Match the following as either Continental crust or Oceanic crust

• Continental

  crust

• Continental

  crust

• Oceanic

  crust

• Oceanic

  crust

• Continental

  crust

older

less dense

recycles

basalt rock

thicker

• older

• less dense

• recycles

• basalt rock

• thicker

Multiple Choice

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

• divergent

• convergent

• continental

• transform

Multiple Choice

What type of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?

• continental and continental

• Oceanic and continental

• oceanic and divergent

• continental and convergent

Multiple Select

What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

• volcanoes

• new crust

• Trenches

• rift valley

Multiple Choice

At which boundary is crust neither consumed or created?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• oceanic

Multiple Choice

The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, are part of the ___ .

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• mantle

• granitic rock

Multiple Choice

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• CONTINENTAL DRIFT

• SEAFLOOR SPREADING

• PLATE BOUNDERIES

• CONVECTION CURRENTS

Multiple Choice

Forms where plates are moving away from each other is called _______.

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

Multiple Choice

Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding.

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Multiple Choice

The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

• Panthalassa

• Pangaea

Multiple Choice

Tectonic plates consist of____.

• Continental crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Both continental and oceanic

• Asthenosphere

Multiple Choice

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by______.

• convection currents

• rotation of the Earth

• movement of materials in the outer core

• revolution of the Earth

Multiple Choice

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that____

• the oceanic crust is melting.

• volcanic islands are forming.

• the denser oceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust

• the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.