
Plate Tectonics
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Plate Tectonics
Please recall your lesson during the face-to-face classes.
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Objectives
Students are expected to...
Explain how mountains, oceans, seas, rifts, valleys, and volcanoes form using the Plate Tectonics Theory
Explain how earthquakes happen using the Plate Tectonics Theory
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Please rest your eyes for 3 minutes.
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Multiple Choice
The earth's outer shell is divided into slabs of rock called ______ .
continental plates
crustal plates
trench plates
tectonic plates
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Multiple Choice
What is the driving force behind the movement of the plates?
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Match
divergent
convergent
transform
divergent
convergent
transform
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Match
Match the following as either Continental crust or Oceanic crust
Continental
crust
Continental
crust
Oceanic
crust
Oceanic
crust
Continental
crust
older
less dense
recycles
basalt rock
thicker
older
less dense
recycles
basalt rock
thicker
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Multiple Choice
At which plate boundary is new crust formed?
divergent
convergent
continental
transform
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Multiple Choice
What type of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?
continental and continental
Oceanic and continental
oceanic and divergent
continental and convergent
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Multiple Select
What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?
PICK TWO
volcanoes
new crust
Trenches
rift valley
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Multiple Choice
At which boundary is crust neither consumed or created?
divergent
convergent
transform
oceanic
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Multiple Choice
The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, are part of the ___ .
asthenosphere
lithosphere
mantle
granitic rock
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Multiple Choice
The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and
moved
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
SEAFLOOR SPREADING
PLATE BOUNDERIES
CONVECTION CURRENTS
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Multiple Choice
Forms where plates are moving away from each other is called _______.
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
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Multiple Choice
Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
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Multiple Choice
The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.
Laurasia
Gondwana
Panthalassa
Pangaea
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Multiple Choice
Tectonic plates consist of____.
Continental crust
Oceanic Crust
Both continental and oceanic
Asthenosphere
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Multiple Choice
The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by______.
convection currents
rotation of the Earth
movement of materials in the outer core
revolution of the Earth
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Multiple Choice
Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that____
the oceanic crust is melting.
volcanic islands are forming.
the denser oceanic crust is subducting under the less dense oceanic crust
the tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
Plate Tectonics
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