Q1 SCIENCE QUIZ BOWL

What is the Plate Tectonics Theory?

1. Name and describe the three types of plate boundaries.

1. What is the difference between the lithosphere and asthenosphere?

1. What causes earthquakes?

1. What is subduction, and where does it occur?

11. Why do oceanic plates subduct under continental plates? (Explain density and give an example.)

11. Why do volcanoes form at convergent boundaries? (Explain magma formation.)

1. Name one evidence of Continental Drift.

1. What is the Ring of Fire?

1. What are seismic waves? Name the two main types.