Name__________________________________ Date________________ Period_______
Tectonic Plates Work Sheet (p.5 of ESRT)
Directions: Use page 5 of your ESRT to answer the following questions.
Part I – Map Symbols – Draw the symbols for the following:
a. Divergent plate boundary
b. mid-ocean ridge
c. convergent plate boundary (subduction zone)
d. complex or uncertain plate boundary
e. transform plate boundary
f. relative motion at plate boundary
g. mantle hot spot
Part II – Name that Plate Boundary – What type of plate boundary exists
between the following plates:
a. North American Plate – Eurasian Plate_____________________
b. Indian-Australian Plate – Pacific Plate ____________________
c. African Plate – Antarctic Plate __________________________
d. South American Plate – African Plate ______________________
e. Eurasian Plate – Philippine Plate ___________________________
f. Fiji Plate – Pacific Plate __________________________________
Part III – Name that Trench – What trench is located between the
following plates?
a. Pacific Plate – North American Plate _______________________
b. Nazca Plate – South American Plate ________________________
c. Philippine Plate – Pacific Plate ____________________________
d. Indian-Australian Plate – Pacific Plate ______________________
Part IV – Name those Plates – What plates are involved in the following
surface features?
a. Mid-Atlantic Ridge (hint: there are 4 plates involved for
this)__________________________________________________
b. Southeast Indian Ridge
___________________________________
c. East Pacific Ridge ____________________________________
d. Mid-Indian Ridge _____________________________________
e. What type of plate boundaries do mid-ocean ridges
have?__________________________________
Part V – Name that Hot Spot – Name the Hot Spot and the Plate that it is on.
Hot Spot
1.
2.
3. Canary Islands Hot Spot
4.
5.
Plate
North American Plate
Part VI – Converging or Diverging – What is happening at the following
plate boundaries? Are they Converging or Diverging?
a. Pacific Plate – North American Plate__________________________
b. Indian-Australian Plate – Pacific Plate_________________________
c. Eurasian Plate – Philippine Plate______________________________
d. Nazca Plate – South American Plate___________________________
e. Fiji Plate – Pacific Plate_____________________________________
f. Indian-Australian Plate - Antarctic Plate________________________
g. Scotia Plate – Sandwich Plate________________________________
Part VII – Longitude and Latitude (A stroll down Memory Lane) – What are
the approximate coordinates of the following locations.
Location
Yellowstone Hot Spot
Scotia Plate
Fiji Plate
Sandwich Plate
Hawaii Hot Spot
Latitude (N or S)
What is located at the following coordinates?
a. 20oS, 100oE______________________
b. 40oN, 130oW_____________________
c. 20oS, 179oW_____________________
d. 2oN, 97oW_______________________
Longitude (E or W)