Warm-up Plate Tectonics Review

Who came up with Continental Drift Theory?

• Alfred Wegener

• Henry Hess

• David Tepper

• Marie Curie

What is the outermost layer of earth that is made of solid rock?

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

• crust

What specific phenomena is happening in the mantle?

• convection cells

• water

• rock

• fire

What kind of fault is associated with convergent boundaries? (Hint: the FOOTWALL is going down. FDR or FUN)

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike slip fault

• compressional fault

What kind of boundary occurs when one plate slides UNDER another?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What crustal features might you find at a convergent/collision boundary between two continental plates?

• earthquakes

• folded mountains

• volcanoes and trenches

• rift valleys

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of crust is THICKER?

• OCEANIC

• CONTINENTAL

Divergent means plates are...

• pushed together

• pulled apart

• slide past each other

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Transform boundaries are typically where what event happens?

• earthquakes

• rain

• snowstorm

• volcanic eruptions

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2