Plate Tectonics Review

What claim can be made about the Ring of Fire - where a large number of earthquakes & volcanic eruptions occur?

a large, continuous land mass

Based on the information on the map, at which location are mountains most likely to form?

Based on the information provided, which of the following is most likely a feature of the Aleutian Islands?

There is a pattern to the locations of earthquakes and volcanoes around the globe?

patterns of magnetic stripes along boundaries of tectonic plates

At the edges of plate boundaries in the ocean there are ridges that look like mountain ranges & possibly volcanoes.

Mountains or hills made by hot rocks and gases moving to Earth's surface from deep inside Earth

These mountains are located near the edge of two tectonic plates, whose movement caused the mountains to form.

What feature could we expect to see off the coast of Peru & Chile?

long chains or groups of mountains

a deep valley at the bottom of the ocean

This fault line was caused by the movement of tectonic plates under Earth's surface.

Most earthquakes tend to occur at which location?

a sudden release of energy under Earth's surface that makes the ground shake or crack