Grade 6 Unit 07: Plate Tectonics Review

1. 1. Describe and draw the three types of plate boundaries.
2. 2. With convergent plates, compare two land masses with a land mass with an ocean plate.
3. 3. What type of geologic activity is most likely to be responsible for: Earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain formation?
4. 4. Describe mid-oceanic rifts. What type of plate boundary? What is happening in the mantle that causes them?
5. 5. What is the Ring of Fire? Which plate does it surround?
6. 6. Be able to identify and name the following plates: North American, South American, African, Indo-Australian, Antarctic, Eurasian, and Pacific.
7. 7. What are the 3 types of plate boundaries? What geologic features do you see or experience or see around each boundary?
8. 8. Earthquakes can happen around plate boundaries. What causes earthquakes?
9. 9. What type of plate boundary is most likely to form mountains?
10. 10. What type of plate boundary is most likely to be responsible for the creation of an ocean basin?
11. 11. What causes the tectonic plates to move? Answer
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