Plate Tectonic Review

Alfred Wegener 's "Continental Drift" proposed that Earth's continents

• had once been joined as 3 separate land masses

• had once been joined as a single land mass

• had never been joined

• had always been located at their current locatins

Process in which one tectonic plate is forced beneath another

• Transform Boundary

• Mid- Ocean Ridge

• Rift Valley

• Subduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Place where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Divergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Plate Boundary

• Created the Himalayan Mountains

Type of boundary that pushes continental crust upward to form folded mountains.

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent: Oceanic to Continental

• Convergent: Continental to Continental

Alfred Wegener named his super continent

• Eurasia

• Pangaea

• Laurasia

• Wegener Land

Type tectonic plate boundary that produces deep ocean trenches and volcanic mountain chains

• Convergent: Continental to Continental

• Convergent: Oceanic to Oceanic

• Convergent: Oceanic to Continental

• Divergent: Ocean to Ocean

Rock samples near ocean trenches are

• older than those taken from continental crust

• older than those taken near ocean ridges

• younger than those taken near ocean ridges

• are the same age as those taken near ocean ridges

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Volcanic Arc Islands are result of

• Convergent: Oceanic to Oceanic Boundaries

• Divergent: Oceanic to Oceanic Boundaries

• Convergent: Oceanic to Continental Boundaries

• Transform Boundaries

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Thought to be the driving mechanism of tectonic plate movement

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Convection Currents in the mantle

• Conduction of heat in the mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The San Andreas Fault

• Is caused by Continental to Continental Plate Conversion

• Is caused by a Transform Plate Boundary

• Is a result of Oceanic to Continental Plate Conversion

• Is a Rift Valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3