Plate Tectonics Review

Scientists know about Earth's interior by studying evidence from...

• Seismic Waves created by Earthquakes

• Earth's Magnetic Field

• Meteorites

• All of the Above

Magnetic Minerals in volcanic rock point to...

• the north magnetic pole of the adjacent continent

• the north magnetic pole at the time they crystalized

• the current north magnetic pole

• None of the Above

Bathymetric maps show...

• Elevations of mid-ocean ridges

• Depths of deep sea trenches

• Locations of ocean floor features

• All of the Above

Before scientists had data gathered with echo sounders/sonar, they thought the seafloor was...

• steeply sloping

• completely flat and generally featureless

• broken up by trenches

• covered in ridges

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Outlines of the plates are located by mapping...

• earthquake epicenters

• continental margins

• mid-ocean ridges

• faults

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Because S-waves disappear when they reach the outer core, scientists know it is...

• Ultramafic

• Metal

• Liquid

• Not knowable

The Lithosphere...

• behaves plastically

• is partially molten

• is brittle

• can flow

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

____ crust subducts under _____ crust because it is ____.

• continental || oceanic || buoyant

• continental || oceanic || denser

• oceanic || continental || denser

• oceanic || continental || buoyant

What kind of feature are the Japanese Islands?

• orogenic mountain belt

• convergent margin mountains

• volcanic continental arc

• volcanic island arc

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas fault?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2