Tectonics and Landforms
Review Question

1. What is plate tectonics?

2. What evidence was used to confirm the notion of continental drift?

3. Where does sea flooring spreading occur? How have scientists confirmed that sea floor spreading is taking place?

4. What drives the movement of tectonic plates?

5. What is occurring along the midocean ridge?

6. What is a subduction zone, where do you find them, and what kinds of geological activity occurs there?

7. Compare and contrast the four main types of plate boundaries. Give examples of where they occur.

8. What is the "Ring of Fire"?

9. Describe elastic deformation, brittle failure, and plastic deformation.

10. How does folding occur and what is the result?

11. Compare and contrast the different kinds of faults.