7th grade plate tectonics review

Question 1

Evidence of Plate Tectonics - Select Two

Accepted Answer

Fossils, locations of volcanos & earthquakes, land warping, Ocean floor spreading, continent shapes (puzzle pieces)

Question 2

What happens at a convergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

plates come together

Question 3

What is NOT evidence of plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

Whales sinking to the bottom when they die

Question 4

What happens at a transform boundary?

Accepted Answer

plates slide past each other

Question 5

What are the four main layers of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Crust, Mantle, Outer core, Inner core

Question 6

The Theory of Plate Tectonics explains why we have volcanoes and earthquakes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What was the name of the supercontinent that once existed?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 8

Which layers of the Earth is the thinnest?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Question 9

What which plate boundaries do volcanoes occur?

Accepted Answer

divergent/convergent

Question 10

What causes the plates to move and where does this happen?

Accepted Answer

Convection Currents; Asthenoshpere

Question 11

What happens to the temperature and pressure as you move towards the center of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

temperature and pressure rise.

Question 12

What is true of plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

They are constantly moving, They are caused mainly by human impacts on climate.

Question 13

Which tectonic plate do we live on?

Accepted Answer

North American Plate

Question 14

Who first developed the theory that the continents had moved around?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Question 15

What is subduction?

Accepted Answer

One plate slides under another

Question 16

At which plate boundaries can Earthquakes occur?

Accepted Answer

along all plate boundaries

Question 17

What is the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

The top of the mantle and the crust.

Question 18

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

Explains how plates form, move, and interact.

Question 19

The lithosphere is broken into pieces called....

Accepted Answer

plates

Question 20

Earthquakes help support the theory of plate tectonics

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

How does the theory of plate tectonics help us?

Accepted Answer

Allows us to predict possible earth events

Question 22

What happens at a divergent boundary?

Accepted Answer

plates spread apart

Question 23

What is the asthenosphere?

Accepted Answer

the top 100km of the mantle

Question 24

Which layer of the Earth is the thickest?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Question 25

What are convection currents?

Accepted Answer

The flow of heat within a fluid

Question 26

What is NOT true of plate tectonics?

Accepted Answer

They are constantly moving, They are caused mainly by human impacts on climate.

7th grade plate tectonics review

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7th grade plate tectonics review

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