Study guide for Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
1. Be familiar with all the vocabulary from chapter 8,9,10.
2. Know the layers of the earth, crust, mantle, core(inner/outer), lithosphere,
asthenosphere. Be able to draw a model showing these layers.
3. Know how scientists study the earth’s interior.
4. Be familiar with the evidences of continental drift.
5. Know who Alfred Wegner is and why he is important.
6. Be able to explain what happens at the three types of plate boundaries.
7. Know what seafloor spreading is.
8. Be familiar with the dangers of earthquakes and what the likely hood of n
earthquake here in Creedmoor is.
9. Know how earthquakes cause fires.
10. Know what a seismologist does and what a volcanologist does.
11. Know the three types of volcanoes and what each type of eruption looks like.
12. Know where the name Volcano comes from.
13. Know the difference between aa and pahoehoe lava.
14. Know what the Ring of fire is.
15. Know where Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Merapi, Mt. Vesuvius and Yellowstone are
located.
Study guide for Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
1. Be familiar with all the vocabulary from chapter 8,9,10.
2. Know the layers of the earth, crust, mantle, core(inner/outer), lithosphere,
asthenosphere. Be able to draw a model showing these layers.
3. Know how scientists study the earth’s interior.
4. Be familiar with the evidences of continental drift.
5. Know who Alfred Wegner is and why he is important.
6. Be able to explain what happens at the three types of plate boundaries.
7. Know what seafloor spreading is.
8. Be familiar with the dangers of earthquakes and what the likely hood of n
earthquake here in Creedmoor is.
9. Know how earthquakes cause fires.
10. Know what a seismologist does and what a volcanologist does.
11. Know the three types of volcanoes and what each type of eruption looks like.
12. Know where the name Volcano comes from.
13. Know the difference between aa and pahoehoe lava.
14. Know what the Ring of fire is.
15. Know where Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Merapi, Mt. Vesuvius and Yellowstone are
located.