Write in the Vocabulary Word on the Line That Best Matches Each Clue

Write in the Vocabulary Word on the Line That Best Matches Each Clue

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Plate Tectonics Test

inner corePangaeaconvergent boundary

outer coremid-ocean ridgetransform boundary

mantleconvection currentdivergent boundary

crustcontinental driftsubduction

asthenospheretectonic platestheory of plate tectonic

Write the vocabulary word on the line that best matches each clue.`

  1. I’m the huge underwater mountain ranges formed by a divergent boundary that is present in every ocean and circle the Earth. ______
  2. I’m one plate sinking beneath another. ______
  3. I occur where two plates move past each other in opposite directions and cause earthquakes.

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  1. I am the theory that Earth’s lithosphere is broken into huge, moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle. ______
  2. I’m a single land mass that once existed. ______
  3. I’m the place where two plates push together, there are three types of me. ______
  4. I am the reason that Earth’s continents were once joined in a single landmass and then gradually moved apart. ______
  5. I’m the layer of hotter, softer rock under the crust where convection currents occur.

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  1. I’m the layer of liquid iron that surrounds the inner core.

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  1. I’m the motion created when heated material continually rise, cool, and sink.

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  1. I’m the thinnest layer of rock that surrounds Earth and is the least dense.

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  1. I’m a ball of hot, solid metals (due to pressure) at Earth’s center.

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  1. I’m the large and small slabs of rock that make up pieces of the lithosphere.

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  1. I’m the Earth’s thickest layer, measuring nearly 2900 kilometers.

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  1. I am the boundary where tectonic plates move apart.

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Answer each question using your Tectonic Plate/Earth’s Interior Graph.

Be sure to include proper labels and round to the nearest tenth.

  1. What type of plate boundary is the Aleutian Trench?

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  1. What type of plate boundary is the Southeast Indian Ridge?

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  1. What plate is at 55oS, 50oW?

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  1. What is found at 65oN, 15oW?

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  1. Give the latitude and longitude of the Galapagos Hot Spot. (labels)

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  1. What is happening to the Atlantic Ocean with the passage of time?

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  1. What general direction is the Nazca Plate moving?

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  1. What 2 geological features does a divergent boundary under the ocean create?

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  1. What is the pressure of the outer core at 4500km? (label)

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  1. What is the pressure of the stiffer mantle at 2000km? (label)

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  1. What is the temperature of the inner core at 5100km? (label)

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  1. What is the temperature of the stiffer mantle at 1000km? (label)

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Extended Response

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.

  1. An object has a mass of 6.0 grams and a volume of 3.0cm3, what is the density of the object? Will the object sink or float in water?

Be sure to show ALL your work, including the equation for density, how you got the answer, units and round your answer to the nearest hundredth (two places after the decimal). (5 points)

  1. What kinds of evidence led to the development of the theory of plate tectonics? (5 points) USE COMPLETE SENTENCES
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