Endogenic Process: Plate Tectonics

Open Ended

Explain the geologic processes described in the video that led to the formation and great height of Mount Everest. In your answer, include how the movement of lithospheric plates contributed to the mountain’s present elevation.

Open Ended

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

Which of the following is the reason for seafloor spreading?

• 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