Plate Tectonics Review Worksheet
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Use your knowledge gained from previous classwork, classroom books, and/or your notes to answer these questions.
Classroom texts: Orange book-ch. 7, pp. 166-187. The purple book-ch. 7, pp. 224-240
You can also find information in the online Glencoe textbook found on my opening Teacher Page (“Hello” page)
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The Aleutians and the landmasses that make up Japan are chains islands along the edge of the Pacific.
Use the diagrams page #2 of this worksheet to infer how these chains of islands formed?
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2.
Why do earthquakes occur in southern California? (What is happening there, tectonically speaking?)
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3.
List the three types of boundaries and what kind of motion happens at each. (define each)
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4.
Why do many earthquakes but no volcanoes occur at the convergent boundary forming the Himalayas?
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5.
Mount St. Helens is a volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.
Use the map on the back of this worksheet to infer why this volcano and others in the area may have formed.
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6.
What motion in the Earth’s mantle causes the Earth’s plates to move? __________________________________
7.
What landforms are created when two continents collide? ___________________________________________
8.
How have the Hawaiian Islands formed? __________________________________________________________
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The
Cascade Mountain area
The islands of Japan
The Aleutians Islands
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