Test Review
Tectonic Plates
1. Label all the tectonic plates on the map below:
Eurasian
plate
Eurasian
North
American
Pacific
plate
African
Indoaustrian
South
American
Antarctic plate
Word Bank:
Indo-Australian
Plate
Pacific Plate
Eurasian Plate
North American
Plate
South American
Plate
African Plate
Antarctica Plate
2. Describe the movement of tectonic plates (ex. do they sometime move, never move, or
constantly moving).
Constantly moving
3. Along plate boundaries Volcanoes
4.
and earthquakes
occur most often.
Convection currents in the asthenosphere are responsible for plate
movement.
5. Describe what is happening to tectonic plates when an earthquake occurs.
Pressure builds up, the plates suddenly slip and energy is
released
6. What type of plate boundary ONLY produces earthquakes?
Transform
7. Give an example of how to you show someone how mountains are formed.
Put a towel in front of you, put your hands on the ends and
push your hands together like a converging boundary
8. Label the tectonic movement and geological events to the arrows below:
Diverging-ocean basins, new crust is
formed, volcanoes
Mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes,
trenches
Earthquakes
Transform- earthquakes
Divergent- new ocean floor
and oceanic basins
Convergent- Mountains
9. Name the man responsible for the theory of plate tectonic movement.
Alfred Wegener