Create a document in Google drive. Name it "Plate Tectonics Review Notes."
Copy and paste the questions below into your Google document. Answer in complete sentences. Remember you are going to be able to use this information on your writing assessment, so longer answers are better!


1. What is a divergent boundary? What types of surface features do they create? 
2. What is a convergent boundary? What types of surface features do they create? 
3. What is a transform boundary? What types of surface features do they create?
4. What causes tectonic plate movement?
5. What is a tectonic plate?
6. What is sea-floor spreading? 
7. How is a mountain formed?
8. What is a fault?
9. What is subduction?
10. Are the continents always in the exact same place? Explain. 
11. Why do earthquakes happen?
12. How do the earth layers affect the tectonic plates?
13. What is convection?
14. How are volcanoes created, and why do they erupt?
15. Why do so many earthquakes happen in Western California?