Plate Motion Unit Review

Earth's outer layer is located UNDERNEATH the Earth's surface.

What is the Earth's surface?

What direction do the plates move at a DIVERGENT boundary?

What evidence do we have that the plates have been moving for millions of years?

What is the name of the location where two plates meet?

What type of boundary could explain how continents that were not connected in the past be connected now?

What evidence did Alfre Wegener present that supports the theory of plate motion?

What type of boundary could explain how fossils or continents that were once together are now far apart?

How do geologists determine the rate of plate motion?

What is the mantle made of?

What is Earth's outer layer made of?

What evidence supports the existence of plate boundaries?

What direction do the plates move at a CONVERGENT plate boundary?

Which diagram better depicts a CONVERGENT boundary?

How do the plates and mantle interact at a CONVERGENT boundary?

What does this pattern of earthquakes and volcaoes most likely mean?

What layer is located underneath Earth's outer layer?

What landform is found at DIVERGENT boundaries?

Which diagram better depicts a DIVERGENT boundary?

What are the large sections of Earth's outer layer called?

We can feel the Earth's plates moving.

What did the evidence Alfred Wegener collected tell us about past plate motion?

How do the plates and mantle interact at a DIVERGENT boundary?

What landform is found at CONVERGENT boundaries?