Name
Core
UNIT D Test Review : PLATE TECTONICS
1. The distance from the earth’s surface to the center of the earth is
________ km
2. Continental drift is the idea that_________________________.
3. What is most likely to occur at a transform boundary?
4. Plate tectonics refers to the theory that:
5. Scientific evidence suggests that the earth is ___________ of years
old.
7. The word “lithosphere” is used to refer to which layers of the earth?
8. Plate tectonics helps explain the formation of what?
9. What provides evidence for plate tectonics?
10. Plate tectonics is the theory that sections of the earth’s
crust_________________________.
11. New lithosphere is mostly created at what type of plate boundary?
12. The Himalayan mountains, which are along the northern border of
India, were formed by____________.
Answer the following questions
13. Modern humans have been on the earth for 195,000 years. Select
three major events that occurred before that time and list the order in
which they occurred.
14. a. What is subduction? (3 point answer)
b. At what type of plate boundary does subduction occur? (3 point
answer)
c. Do you think nuclear waste should be stored in a subduction zone?
Support your answer with at least two pieces of evidence. (3 pt
answer)
15. Draw a circle and use it to make a diagram of the earth’s interior
by: (4 points)
a. Sketching the approximate size of each layer
b. Labeling each layer with its name
Essay Question ( 16 points)
16 What is the Richter scale and what does it have to do with a
seismograph?
Vocabulary: Study Your Flippy-Flappy and know the
definitions of the words below
Active
Dormant
Extinct
Nuclear Waste
Magma
Core
Crust
Lava
Lithosphere
Mantle
Paleontologist
Geological Time
Pangea
Plates
Continental Drift
Plate tectonics
Theory
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
Subduction zone
Transform boundary
Convection Current
Seismograph
Richter scale