5. What type of plate boundary exists between the South American Plate and the Nazca Plate? Which is the overriding plate?
Convergent plate boundary. The South American Plate is the overriding plate.
16. In what direction is the North American Plate moving at the San Andreas Fault? What direction is the Pacific Plate moving?
North American Plate = Northwest. Pacific Plate = Southeast.
14. What hotspot is located on the Equator?
The Galapagos Hot Spot
17. Over what “Ridge” is the Iceland Hotspot located?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
10. How are the African Plate and the South American Plate moving relative to each other?
They are moving away from each other.
18. Between what two plates is there a complex or uncertain plate boundary?
The Eurasian and North American Plates
19. The Sandwich Plate is sandwiched between what two plates?
The Scotia and South American Plates
13. Name the hotspot located on the African Plate.
Canary Islands Hot Spot
1. What plate do residents of Bronx, New York live on?
North American Plate
15. Which tectonic plate is located at 30 degrees north and 40 degrees east?
The Arabian Plate.
6. Which plate is the subducting plate at the Aleutian Trench?
The Pacific plate
20. What kind of a landform is created at divergent plate boundaries? Give one example.
Ridge. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
9. What kind of plate boundary exists at the Southeast Indian Ridge?
Divergent plate boundary
2. At what type of plate boundary do plates move away from each other? (Use the key under the map)
Divergent plate boundaries
3. How do plates move at convergent plate boundaries?
They move toward each other
8. What kind of plate boundary exists at the San Andreas Fault?
Transform plate boundary
4. At what type of plate boundary do tectonic plates slide past one another?
Transform plate boundaries
7. What type of plate boundary exists between the Indian-Australian Plate and the Antarctic Plate?
Divergent plate boundary