Name PLATE TECTONICS LAB ____ Date Tectonic Plates Directions: Use page 5 of the ESRTs to answer the following questions. 1. Draw the symbol for each of the boundary/activity types listed below. Convergent Divergent Transform 2. What type of plate boundary lies on the west coast of South America? 3. In which ocean is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge located? 4. What two plates interact to form the Aleutian Trench? 5. What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault? 6. On which plate is the Hawaii Hot Spot located? 7. Which is the overriding plate along the Peru-Chile Trench? 8. What are the coordinates of the Galapagos Hot Spot? 9. What direction is the Cocos plate moving? 10. What types of boundaries surround the Philippine plate? 11. What plate does New York lie on? 12. What direction is the African plate moving? Hot Spot 13. What type of plate boundary does the Iceland Hot Spot lie on? 14. What are the coordinates of the Yellowstone Hot Spot? 15. Interactions between which two plates cause earthquakes in California? 16. What three types of plate boundaries are shown on this map? 17. How do you tell which is the subducting plate along a subduction boundary? 18. What type of plate boundary lies in northern India? 19. What type of plate boundary caused the Southeast Indian Ridge to form? 20. What are the coordinates of the Sandwich Plate? 21. What layer of the Earth makes up these tectonic plates? 22. Determine the latitude (N or S) and longitude (W or E) of each of the following. Be sure to include units and compass directions. a. Tasman Hot Spot: 37 S , 160 E Always N or S first!! Then W or E b. Easter Island Hot Spot: c. Hawaii Hot Spot: d. St. Helena Hot Spot: e. Canary Islands Hot Spot: f. Iceland Hot Spot: g. Bouvet Hot Spot: h. Galapagos Hot Spot: 23. What type of plate boundary exists between the following: a. North American Plate & Eurasian Plate: b. South American Plate & Nazca Plate: c. San Andreas Fault: d. Antarctic Plate & Indian-Australian Plate: e. Arabian Plate & Eurasian Plate: f. Scotia Plate & Antarctic Plate:
