Chapter 1: Plate Tectonics STUDY GUIDE
Test Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2016
**Study hard as this will be a BIG test! I am available to help you in class and
during contact time.**
Materials allowed on test:
1 half sheet of loose-leaf, one-sided (You may write whatever notes you need on
one half sheet of loose-leaf…notes found on the back side will be confiscated.)
What you should know…
Section 1: Earth’s Interior
1. What are the 2 main types of evidence geologists use to learn about
Earth’s interior?
2. What are the 3 main layers of Earth?
3. Be able to explain the different characteristics of the crust, the mantle,
and the core
4. ALL of Section 1 vocabulary
Section 2: Convection and the Mantle
1. What are the 3 types of heat transfer?
2. Be able to explain how each heat transfer works.
3. How are convection currents created? (How does it work?)
4. ALL of Section 2 vocabulary
Section 3: Drifting Continents
1. Who is Alfred Wegener and what did he discover? When did he discover
it?
2. What is Pangaea?
3. What are the 3 main types of evidence Wegener gathered to prove his
theory?
4. Why was Wegener’s theory first rejected?
5. ALL of Section 3 vocabulary
Section 4: Sea-Floor Spreading
1. What is the mid-ocean ridge? How was it detected?
2. Who theorized that the sea floor was spreading? When did he discover it?
3. What is sea-floor spreading?
4. How does new oceanic crust form?
5. What 3 main pieces of evidence did Harry Hess gather to prove his
theory?
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6. What is subduction? What is its process? Where does it occur?
7. ALL of Section 4 vocabulary
Section 5: The Theory of Plate Tectonics
1. What are plates?
2. What is a scientific theory?
3. How do plates move? What are the 3 ways?
4. What are the 3 different types of plate boundaries?
5. What land features are created or destroyed at each boundary (pg. 34-35
has great visual to picture to help you)?
6. ALL of Section 5 vocabulary
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