Ch 7

What is the relationship between the crust and the lithosphere

What is the relationship between the mantle and the lithosphere

What is the relationship between the mantle and the asthenosphere

What surface feature provides evidence for the location of hot spots

When will a hot spots volcano become extinct

What surface feature would you expect to form if both a hot spot and tectonic plate are stationary

What is convention

What accounts for most tectonic plate motion

What is the relationship between temperature and density

Which of the following terms best characterizes upwelling in the asthenosphere

What is a plume

What features at the surface provide evidence of plumes

How do plates move at divergent plates boundaries

How do plates moves at convergent plate boundaries

How do plates move at transform plates boundaries

In general where do earthquakes and volcanic eruption occurs

What forms at divergent plates boundaries

In general where do volcanoes form in subduction zones

Why are volcanoes not found at transform boundaries

The East African rift is a divergent plate boundary that is splitting the continent of African into two pieces what will eventually form around this divergent boundary

Where are most modern divergent plate boundaries found

Where do most divergent boundaries originate

Which type of faulting is associated with the development of new ocean floor

What causes melting of material under divergent plate boundaries

When do new oceans form

Where are tectonic plates located

What are the three types of plates boundaries

Which of the following statements about earthquakes with magnitude greater the 4.0 is most accurate

Which plates boundary is not associated with volcanic eruption

Which phenomenon can explain the presence of volcanoes in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

Which type of plate boundary is most closely associated with uplifting continental regions and mountains building

Which of the following is a layer of the earth that is classified not by composition but by physical properties

Oceanic lithosphere contains oceanic crust and the

How is the thickness of the lithosphere going to change as it moves away from a divergent plate boundary

What is the main material being subducted at an ocean continent convergent boundary

What are two differences between oceanic crust and continental crust

Name the correct order of rifting events

The gulf of Aden represents which part of the rifting sequence

Which feature connects the South American parana and African entedeka flood basalts

What sequence of rocks would you expect Rift Valley evolution to produce from oldest to youngest

Which type of tectonic boundary is the result of two tectonic plates colliding with each other

At a subduction zone where oceanic lithosphere meets continental lithosphere which would subduction and why

Why are volcanic chains associated with convergent boundaries plates

In a collision between two continental plates can a continental plate subduct why or why not

Which type of tectonic boundary is the result of two tectonic plates sliding past each other

Which fault in Southern California was created by the sliding of the pacific plate past the North American plate

Which of the following statements is a part of the continental drift hypothesis

How does the lithosphere differ from the asenthosphere

Why are oceanic ridges more elevated than the rest of the sea floor

Where does the lithospheric form

Which of the following locations is a modern day example of an active rift

Where would you expect to see deep ocean trenches

Which of the following features is considered a destructive plate margin

How are transform boundaries different from the other two types of plate boundaries

What happens to the lithosphere at transform plate boundaries

What is a hot spot

Which of the following process drive plates tectonic

Why were North American geologist so resistant to wegeners idea

What kind of plate motion is associated with the mountain range that goes around the world what is its name