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Mo10-L3: Vocabulary Review

Direction: Answer each question or respond to each statement on the lines provided. You must include
the terms below in your answers.

asthenosphere convection convergent boundary divergent boundary
lithosphere plate tectonics subduction transform boundary
1. What is the importance of the lithosphere in the theory of plate tectonics?

2. What happens at a convergent boundary?

3. Why is the theory of plate tectonics so important?

4. What happens at a transform boundary?

5. What is an example of a divergent boundary?

6. What is an example of subduction?

7. How does convection relate to motion of Earth’s surface?

8. Compare and contrast the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.

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