Plate Tectonics: Cornell Notes

How many major tectonic plates are on Earth.

• 12

• 7

• 4

• 8

Earth’s lithosphere is made up of what layer/s?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Crust and Mantle

• Crust and upper mantle

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The Earth's lithosphere is broken into pieces that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and in constant motion.

• Plate tectonics

• lithosphere

• earth

• mantle

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The word _________ means builder.

• tectonic

• earth

• lithosphere

• core

Tectonic plate movement forms

• volcanoes

• eruptions

• earthquake

• All of the above

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Explains how and why continents move.

• Plate tectonics

• earth

• lithosphere

• core

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The molten rock of the __________ flows very slowly and carries the floating tectonic plates with it.

• asthenosphere

• plate tectonics

• molten rock

• core

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_________ the circulation of materials caused differences in temperature.

• convection currents

• lithosphere

• plate tectonics

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Plate boundaries are were the tectonic plates meet. There are ___ ways that plates move.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Plates slide past each other and the lithosphere is neither created or destroyed.

• Transform Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

• Convergent Boundaries

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