1. Chunky Tectonic Plates Or... Earth is really chunked up.

2.  older The farther oceanic crust is from a mid-ocean ridge the _________ it is.

3.  California or the West Coast or Alaska or Hawaii The area of the U.S. that has frequent earthquakes is _____________.

4.  Earthquakes, volcanoes and mountains 3 things happen or appear at plate boundaries. They are:

5.  Divergent Mid-ocean ridges are _________ plate boundaries.

6.  Convergent The Aleutian Trench is located at a __________ plate boundary.

7.  West There are frequent earthquakes on the _______ coast of South America.

8.  Convection or convection currents The driving force behind tectonic plate movement is mantle ________.

9.  The Equator Coal is found in NYS because 300 mya, NY was near _____________.

10.  Jig-saw puzzle One piece of evidence for plate tectonics is: continents fit together like a _________

11.  African The Canary Islands hot spot is in the __________ Plate.

12.  More dense Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust?

13.  Pacific Plate and North American Plate The San Andreas Fault is between which two tectonic plates?

14.  Convection currents The circular arrows in the illustration are called __________________.

15.  Kauai Which island is the oldest?

16. The triangles on this map may represent ______.  A) Earthquakes  B) Mountain Ranges  C) Volcanoes  D) All of the above

17. Which NY State location has the greatest risk of a major earthquake?  Massena