Study Guide for Plate Tectonics, Faults and Folds Quiz on

What to Study:
CD-ROM: Theory of Plate Tectonics
Electronic Textbook: Inside Earth 1-4, 1-5 (especially pages 34, 35), 2-1
Faults and Folds notes
Lithospheric Plates Notes

1. Draw and name the three types of faults, their associated boundary, and the
type of stress that causes them.

Draw

Name
Boundary
Stress

2. Draw, name, and label the areas of tension and compression when rock
layers bend up and down

3. Where is the 70,000 km long mountain chain, and what is it called?

4. Compare relative density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust.

Which will be subducted at a convergent boundary?

5. Where is the oldest oceanic crust found? Youngest?

6. Fill in the Plate Boundary chart on the back

 Plate Boundaries
Type Features and events Direction Type of Example
Associated with each of motion Stress
Divergent

Transform
Convergent Boundaries

Ocean-Ocean

Ocean-Continental

Continental-Continental