PLATE TECTONICS

Question 1

where Earth is likened to a grape that contracted due to a cooling process that occurred

Answer 1

RAISIN THEORY

Question 2

tectonic came from the greek word ______

Answer 2

TEKTON

Question 3

a scientific theory that explains how major land forms are created

Answer 3

PLATE TECTONICS

Question 4

lithosphere is made up of the crust and upper mantle is broken into large rocky plates

Answer 4

THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS

Question 5

tectonic plates lie on top of a partially molten layer of rock called

Answer 5

ASTHENOSPHERE

Question 6

pangaea was surrounded by a global ocean called

Answer 6

PANTHALASSA

Question 7

Greek word which means “all the earth”

Answer 7

PANGIA

Question 8

theory proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912

Answer 8

CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY

Question 9

primary plates

Answer 9

• AFRICAN
• EURASIA
• INDO-AUSTRALIAN
• NORTH AMERICAN
• SOUTH AMERICAN
• PACIFIC
• NAZCA

Question 10

secondary plates

Answer 10

• ARABIAN
• CARIBBEAN
• COCOS
• INDIAN
• JUAN DE DUCA
• PH SEA
• SCOTIA

Question 11

forces and events that leads to a large structural deformation of earth’s lithosphere

Answer 11

OROGENY

Question 12

orogeny came from the Greek words: _____ and _____

Answer 12

OROS, GENESIS

Question 13

3 types of tectonic convergence

Answer 13

• ARC-CONTINENTAL
• OCEANIC-CONTINENTAL
• CONTINENTAL-CONTINENTAL