TEK 9 Review

1. What was the name of the “super” continent in the Continental Drift Theory?
2. Who is credited with the Continental Drift Theory?
3. (and 4.) Which 2 southern continents seem to fit together like puzzle pieces, and therefore support the idea of Continental Drift?
5. (and 6.) List the two smaller continents that Pangaea broke into.
7. Identify the crocodile-like fossil found in both South America and Africa.
8. Identify the fern-like fossil found in both South America and Africa.
9. Identify the scientist whose hypothesized Seafloor Spreading.
10. According to Seafloor Spreading, where are the younger rocks in relationship to the mid-ocean ridges?
11. Identify the technological innovation that allowed the mapping of large parts of the seafloor during and after World War II.
12. Identify the type of tectonic plate that consists of older crust.
13. Identify the type of tectonic plate that consists of younger crust.
14. Identify the type of tectonic plate that consists of more dense crust.
15. Identify the type of tectonic plate that consists of less dense crust.
16. Identify the type of tectonic plate interaction that is described by plates rubbing against each other.
17. Identify the type of tectonic plate interaction that is described by plates separating to form rifts.
18. Identify the type of tectonic plate interaction that is described by plates coming together.
19. What is a noticeable result of Transform boundaries?
20. What is created at Divergent boundaries?
21. Which type of tectonic plate interaction results in the formation of mountains?
22. If two continental plates converge, what is the resulting land form?
23. Which type of tectonic plate converges with an oceanic plate to form trenches and arc islands?
24. Which type of tectonic plate converges with an oceanic plate to form trenches and volcanic mountains on land?
25. The process of one tectonic plate being forced underneath another has a name. What is it called?
26. Subduction always results in the formation of volcanoes (either arc islands or volcanic mountains on land). What other land form is produced by subduction?
27. Forces exterior to the Earth’s lithosphere work to reshape landforms. Which process is described by “the breaking down of crustal features as a result of contact with Earth’s atmosphere, water, or organisms”?
28. Identify the term that describes the movement of weathered materials.
29. The erosion process ends with weathered materials collecting at a new location. This is described by which term?
30. Identify the term for lines that connect points of equal elevation on a topographic map.
31. Identify the term for the distance between contour lines on a topographic map.
32. Draw and label a topographic map of a hill with a base of 1000 meters, a peak of 5000 meters, and a contour interval of 1000 meters.
33. Make a profile graph of your topographic map.