Plate Tectonics (Grade 8)
Free printable Grade 8 science worksheet on plate tectonics. Covers divergent, convergent and transform boundaries, subduction, the Ring of Fire and the evidence for plate tectonic theory.
Grade 8 · Science worksheet
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Plate Tectonics
Answer each question about tectonic plates, plate boundaries and the evidence for plate tectonic theory.
- 1.Which volcanic feature forms on the overriding plate above a subduction zone?
- 2.What forms when two continental plates collide, as India and Asia did?
- 3.What type of plate boundary forms where two plates move apart?
- 4.What underwater feature forms where two oceanic plates move apart?
- 5.What is the belt of volcanoes and earthquakes around the edge of the Pacific Ocean called?
- 6.Why does Australia have very few active volcanoes and large earthquakes?
- 7.Which tectonic plate is Australia on?
- 8.Magnetic stripes in the sea floor are symmetrical on both sides of a mid-ocean ridge. What does that show?
- 9.Tectonic plates are pieces of the rigid outer shell of Earth. What is that shell called?
- 10.About how far north does the Australian plate move each year?
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