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Plate Tectonics Review Worksheet
Directions: Answer the following questions on this paper. You may use an extra sheet of paper.
1. Define Continental Drift:
2. What are four pieces of evidence for continental drift?
3. Define Plate Tectonics:
4. Two pieces of evidence for plate tectonics?
5. What are the layers of the Earth?
6. What is the lithosphere? Asthenosphere? Mesosphere?
7. What causes the plates to move?
8. What is the difference between oceanic crust and continental crust?
9. Be able to interoperate the graph from Earth’s Subsurface Changes from my teacher site.
Directions: Draw a picture of each boundary, us arrows to show direction of the motion, and label the
features:
1. Divergent – mid-ocean ridges
2. Transform (Strike-Slip) - fault
3. Convergent
a. Oceanic vs. Oceanic –trench, island arc, subduction, lithosphere, asthenosphere
b. Continental vs. Continental – mountains, lithosphere, asthenosphere
c. Oceanic vs. Continental – trench, volcanic arc, subduction, lithosphere, asthenosphere
Plate Tectonics Review Worksheet
1. Continental Drift: A theory proposed by Alfred Wegner that said all continents were once joined 300
million years ago in a single land mass called Pangaea. Over time the continents moved to their
present day locations.
2. What are four pieces of evidence for continental drift? Fossils, puzzle fit, glacial grooves, rock
strata, mountain belts
3. Plate Tectonics: Plate tectonics is the theory that explains how large pieces of the earth’s outermost
layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shape.
4. Two pieces of evidence for plate tectonics? Locations of earthquakes and volcanoes show the plate
boundaries and ocean floor features.
5. What are the layers of the earth? Inner core – Iron Fe, outer core, mantle, crust – oxygen O and
silicone Si
6. What is the lithosphere – Solid outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper
portion of the mantle. What is the Asthenosphere - the soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic
plates move. What is the Mesosphere – the strong lower part of the mantle between the
asthenosphere and the outer core.
7. What causes the plates to move? Convection currents in the mantle
8. What is the difference between oceanic crust and continental crust? Oceanic crust is denser, younger,
and thinner than continental crust.
9. Be able to interoperate the graph from Earth’s Subsurface Changes from the wiki.
Draw a picture of each boundary, us arrows to show direction of the motion, and label the features:
10. Divergent – mid-ocean ridges
11. Transform (Strike-Slip) - fault
12. Convergent
a. Oceanic vs. Oceanic –trench, island arc, subduction, lithosphere, asthenosphere
b. Continental vs. Continental – mountains, lithosphere, asthenosphere
c. Oceanic vs. Continental – trench, volcanic arc, subduction, lithosphere, asthenosphere
Name: _________________________________ Grade: ______________________ Date: ______________
School: ___________________________________________ Score: _______________ Gender: _________
Our country is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Thus, we often experience earthquakes, and we are home to
many majestic but terrible volcanoes.
Directions: Do you still remember your discussions during your Grade 6, and 8 about volcanoes? You need
to recall important words related to volcanoes that will be used in this module. Below is a vocabulary word
list with missing letters. Read the definition on the left side to complete each word on the right side.
Definition Vocabulary Word
1. A volcano with accounts of eruption documented 1. A_T_V_ VO_C_NO
within 10,000 years (2 words)
2. A big body of land on the globe 2. _O_ _IN_ _T
3. A vibration of Earth due to the rapid release of
energy 3. E_ _T_ _U_KE
4. The location on the Earth's surface directly above 4. _PI_ _N_ _R
the focus of an earthquake
5. The exact site of the origin of an earthquake, 5. F_C_ _
below the epicenter
6. The liquid rock below the Earth's surface 6. _A_MA
7. A landmass that projects well above its 7. M_U_TA_ _
surroundings; higher than a hill
8. A chain of mountains (2 words) 8. _OU_TA_N R_N_E
9. Earthquake waves (2 words)
9. _E_SM_C W_V_S
10. The first type of seismic wave to be recorded in a
seismic station, these compression waves are the 10. P_IM_RY _A_ _
fastest and travel through solids, liquids, and gases
(2 words)
11. The second type of earthquake wave to be 11. _E_ _ND_ R_ WAVE
recorded in a seismic station; these shearing waves
are stronger than P-waves, but only move through
solids (2 words)
12. _E_S_OG_A_
12. The graphical record of an earthquake
13. A measuring instrument for detecting and 13. S_I_ _O_RA_H
measuring the intensity and direction and duration of
movements of an earthquake
14. A Japanese term for “big wave in the port;” 14. _S_NA_I
generated during undersea quakes
15. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a
crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, 15. _OL_ANO
hot vapor and gas is being or have been erupted from
the earth's crust
