Review Guide for Test 3 – Plate Tectonics
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Vocabulary words you should be familiar with for this unit:
Normal fault
Crust
Mantle
Inner Core
Reverse fault
Continental Plate
Ocean Plate
P-wave
Strike-slip fault
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Alfred Wegener
Pangaea
Mantle convection
Divergent
Convergent
Strike-slip
Rift
Ridge
Trench
Hot spot
Ring of fire
Stratovolcano
Cinder cone Vol.
Compression stress
Mt. St. Helens
Viscosity
Fire fountain
Plinian
Shear stress
Pyroclastic flow
Aa lava
Tension stress
Anticline
Nebula hypothesis
Epicenter
Fault
Syncline
Richter magnitude
Tsunami
Seismogram
Seismograph(mometer)
S-P Graph
Pahoehoe lava
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Outer Core
S-wave
Continental Drift
Transform boundary
Mountain
Shield Volcano
Effusive
Plume
Focus
Aftershock
Caldera
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Names/locations of major and minor tectonic plates
Interior of the Earth / Layers of the earth and their properties
Relationship between lithosphere and asthenosphere
How mantle convection drives plate tectonics
Contributions of Alfred Wegener
 His evidence / problems / Pangaea
Divergent boundaries
 Types of / Real-life examples of / Features of
Convergent boundaries
 Types of / Real-life examples of / Features of
Transform boundaries:
 Types of / Real-life examples of / Features of
Hot spots & How Hawaii formed
Major mountain ranges of the world
Hawaii vs. Iceland
Earthquake risk in the United States
Volcano types, properties, eruptions, and examples
of each type
Volcanic activity in the solar system
Mount St. Helens before and after
How to locate the epicenter of an earthquake by
reading and interpreting seismograms
How P and S waves are useful to determine where
an earthquake happened
Types of faults and how the hanging wall moves in relation to the fault plane
Rock stress associated with fault types
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Review all notes and activities
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Review all old quizzes