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Cornell Notes: Plate Tectonics — watch video (link is on eBoard):

https://wvvw.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTRu620bIsE

Recall Cues Notes

1. What is the solid outside of the The outside of the earth is called lithosphere.
Earth called?

2. Tectonic plates can be oceanic,

lithosphere
continents or

3. What layer of the Earth do

tectonic plates float on?
these
oceanic plates
Continental drift
4. What causes the tectonic plates
to shift?

5. What layer does convection take

stiffer mantle
place?

6. Draw convection arrows in the

Earth.

7. What geologic formations are

und near plate boundaries 1.
faults
kname 3)?

2. volcanoes
3. island arcs
8. Draw direction of movement Transform Convergent Divergent
arrows for each of the plate
boundaries.

9. What feature is associated with

transform boundaries? earthquakes
10. On your ESRT, Page 5, name a
famous fransform plate boundary San Andres fault
found in the U.S.
11. What type of zone is created
between continental and oceanic
plate boundaries?
Subsection zone
NVhich is more dense,
continental crust or oceanic crust?
oceanic crust
 Trenches
13, ir%at are three features found
associated with a subduction 1.

(convergent) boundary?
2. volcanoes
3. mountains
14. Oceanic to oceanic plates form
Island Arcs. What three features 1. deep-sea trench
form convergent plate
shallow sea
at this
2.
boundary?

3. destructive earthquakes
1 S. What mountain chain is
produced by the collision of the The Himalayas
Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate
(continental to continental)?
16. A divergent plate boundary on
land is

location of a
called a rift zone.
rift zone.
Name the
located at rift zones
17. What features are found at the
Mid-ocean ridge? 1. under water mountain ranges
2.
sea floor spreading
3,
fracture zone
18. Where is the younger rock
found at the Mid-ocean ridge? At the start of the mid-ocean ridge
19. As you move from the center
of the ridge, what happens to the The rocks gets younger
a e of the rock?
What does
magnetic polarity
20. Seafloor
Magnetism prove?
21. What is a single area of a
magma plume which "punch" hot spot
through a plate center called?

22. What does the lithospheric

plate do to cause the formation of
the Hawaiian Islands chain?
Hawaii creates new land
Summary: Describe the Earth surface if there were no plate tectonics.

Earth would never have a diverse geography.