Tectonic Plates

What is Tectonic Plate?

• The region of transition from the land to the deep seafloor, i.e. between continental and oceanic crust.

• A massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere.

• A large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a collective region

• A continuous body of salt water that is contained in an enormous basin on Earth's surface.

All of the current continents was a single supercontinent called ...

Pangea broke into two continents called ...

• South America and Asia

• North America and Europe

• Laurasia and Gondwana

• Kandinia and Lurisia

Pangea existed ... million years ago.

• 396

• 399

• 269

• 299

Laurasia and Gondwana existed between (1) ... to (2) ... million years ago.

• (1)235, (2)165

• (1)345, (2)155

• (1)335, (2)175

• (1)355, (2)125

Current continants formed ... million years ago.

• 200

• 300

• 250

• 150

What is the outer edge of continental crust attached to the oceanic crust?

There are over ... miles of continental coasts.

• 11,500

• 12,000

• 12,500

• 12,100

The largest volcano is ... (4169 m) located in the Hawaii.

The strongest earthquake ever recorded was the ... earthquake in 1960.