The following are key concepts that you should be familiar with after reading and studying Chapter 12: Global Tectonics: Plates and Plumes. To evaluate your understanding of any of the key concepts, select the corresponding Concept Quiz from the Selection Bar and answer the questions provided.
Chapter Outline:
12.1 How does continental drift relate to plate tectonics?
12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?
12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
12.7 How do we know . . . that plates move in real time?
12.8 What forces cause plate motions and plumes?
12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
