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Study Guide Chapter 4 Plate Tectonics
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What do tectonic plates consist of?
How is the deep interior of the Earth mapped?
What is the large super continent called (Wegener)?
What forms new oceanic lithosphere?
What has evidence for sea floor spreading come from?
What is a possible result of plates moving along a transform boundary?
What is the outermost layer of Earth called?
What is the liquid layer of the Earth’s core called?
What type of fault usually occurs because of tension?
What type of fault usually occurs because of compression?
In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall?
In a normal fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall?
What is an area where two tectonic plates meet called?
What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
What type of boundary is formed when plates separate?
What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?
What was the huge continent called (continental drift theory)?
Where does sea floor spreading take place?
Why is the mantle denser than the crust?
What does the core mainly consist of?
Seismic waves travel through Earth’s layers at different speeds, why?
Why can similar fossils be found on both sides of the ocean? (2 words)
What happens at mid ocean ridges?
What is compression?
What is tension?
What is the idea that all continents were part of one big landmass?
What is it called when Earth’s magnetic poles change places?
What forms when tectonic plates converge?
Name the layers of the Earth in order from the surface to the center.
What do tectonic plates “float” on?
What do earthquakes produce?
The southern portion of Pangea that broke apart about 180 million years ago is known
as______________.
33. What are magnetic reversals preserved in?
34. What does the Global Positioning System depend on?
35. What type of fault is the San Andreas fault?
Fill in the blanks/completion:
-know the following terms:
Slab pull, ridge, push, convection
1. Crust moves sideways because of ______________
2. Crust moves downward because of _______________
-know the following terms:
Crust, compound, mantle, mineral
1. A ______________________ is a substance composed of two or more elements.
2. Older ____________ is farther away from the mid-ocean ridge than the younger crust is.
-know the following terms:
Seismic wave, tectonic wave
1. A ____________ traveling through a solid will travel faster than a seismic wave traveling
through a liquid.
-know the following terms:
Transform boundaries, convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries
1. Because tectonic plates have irregular surfaces, they grind and jerk as they slide in
________________, which produce earthquakes.
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Folding, compression, fault, tension
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When an object is squeezed the type of stress is called _________________
The bending of rock layers because of stress is _______________
Reverse and normal are examples of _________________
The Tetons are examples of _________________
The Alps and Himalayas are _________________
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Normal, sea-floor spreading, divergent, convergent, reverse, magnetic reversals
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When tension breaks a rock layer it makes a __________ fault.
Tectonic plates move together to form a _________________ boundary.
When compression breaks a rock layer it makes a ____________________ fault.
Magnetic minerals prove Earth has had ________________
New crust in the ocean is a sign of ________________
Tectonic plates move apart to form a ___________________ boundary.
Short Answer/Essay:
1. How do fossils help prove that the continents move?
2. What was Pangea?
3. Tectonic plates forming a transform boundary may move only a few centimeters each year. Can
even this small movement affect people and communities living near a transform boundary?
Explain your answer.