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Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics Study Guide
Items for Study Guide
1. Practice Test on Earth Structure on Schoology
2. This Sheet (Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics Study Guide)
Items to review:
1. 3 Maps and Map Test (1. Specialty Group 2.Plate Group and 3.Convergent, Divergent,
Transform)
2. HW: (Vocabulary, Mesosaurus, Continents On the Move, Mountain Building, Sea Floor
Spreading, Pie Model Structure Questions,)
3. Classwork: Activities/ Labs: (Guided Notes Plate Tectonics, Hot Spots, Hot Spots and Plate
Movement, Convection Currents, Plate Boundary Summary Worksheet, Isostasy Lab, and
Earth’s Density Lab and Plate Boundaries Form).
Possible Essay Questions:
1. Using Plate Tectonics: Explain the landforms
a. Convergent:
i. Ocean to Ocean:
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed
ii. Ocean to Continental
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed:
iii. Continental to Continental
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed:
b. Divergent
i. Ocean to Ocean:
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed
ii. Ocean to Continental
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed:
iii. Continental to Continental
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed:
c. Transform
i. Ocean to Ocean:
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed
ii. Ocean to Continental
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed:
iii. Continental to Continental
1. Landforms:
2. How Formed:
2. Summarize Alfred Wegner’s theory. Include how it started, the name of the theory and
what’s going to happen in the future. You need 5 pieces of evidence that supports this
theory.
3. Compare and Contrast the process of sea floor spreading vs subduction.
4. Explain Isostasy with plate tectonics and a non-plate tectonics example.
5. Identify and describe the 4 different locations in convection currents. Be able to tell
where they occur. What they cause.
6. How can you tell when the magnetic field reversed according to seafloor spreading?
7. Explain each layer of the Earth. Then explain how the structure of the Earth could be
used as evidence to infer how the other planets are structured in our solar system?
8. Compare and Contrast how a hot spot verse plate boundaries can create an island.
Possible Diagrams:
Remember Website Plate Tectonic Guided Notes has Animations
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/drift2.html
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Earth Structure
All Boundaries (Convergent, Divergent, Transform)
Subduction Zones
Sea Floor Spreading
Isostasy
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0041isostasy.php
6. Convection Currents
7. Island Arcs
8. Hot Spots