What do you call the rigid sections of the lithosphere that moves as a unit?

What instrument is used to record the vibration in the ground and determine the location of an earthquake’s epicenter?

What can you say about the location where most of the earthquake epicenters, active volcanoes, and mountain ranges are found?

What type of boundary exists between two oceanic crusts moving towards each other?

In which pair of plates can you find a divergent boundary?

What type of convergence exists between Nazca Plate and South American Plate?

It can be seen from the map that South American plate and African plate are moving in opposite directions. What boundary lies between the two plates?

Which of the following plates shows a convergent plate boundary?

Which plate boundary is formed between the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate?

Which plate boundary is formed between the Antarctic plate and Indo-Australian plate?

Where does subduction occur?

Which geologic feature is a product of subduction?

What geologic feature formed when a divergent plate boundary occurs in oceanic crust?

The Philippines is a product of what process?

What geologic features resulted from the collision of the two continental plates?

If you will visit a place in the Pacific known to be along converging plates, which of these geologic features you should NOT expect to see?

The Marianas Trench is the deepest place on the crust of the Earth. Which of the following processes best explains its formation?

Which elements make up the core?

What makes up the lithosphere?

The movement of the lithospheric plates is facilitated by a soft, weak and plastic-like layer. Which of the following layers is described in the statement?

An S-wave shadow zone is formed as seismic waves travel through the Earth’s body. Which of the following statements does this S-wave shadow zone indicate?

How do you compare the densities of the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core?

Pressure increases with depth towards the center of the Earth. In which layer would you expect pressure to be the greatest?

What causes the convection current on the mantle?

Which of these events will most likely happen because the lithospheric plates move away from each other?

What do you expect to find at two diverging oceanic plates?

The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly. What is the driving force that facilitates this movement?

If all the inner layers of the Earth are firm solid, what could have happened to Pangaea?

Which theory suggests that Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into separate plates that float on the mantle?

Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that the Earth is once single land mass. What is the name of the super continent that consisted of all the present continents?

On which continent were fossils of both Glossopteris and Lystrosaurus discovered?

Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?

If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?