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These are the lab notes of Oceanography. Key important points are: Plate Tectonics, Ocean Basins, Earth, Plates, Considered, Continents, Associated Ocean Basins, Minor Plates, Associated With Continents, Plate Tectonics
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“Plate Tectonics” Lab
Preliminary Questions:
(1) How Many Ocean Basins are there? _________
Name them:
(2) There are 7 continents associated with the Earth, name them:
(3) There are 14 plates that make up our Earth’s crust, 8 of these are considered “major plates,” name them (Fig. 3-10 will help):
(3a) Are the “major” plates associated with the continents (why or why not)?
(3b) Return to “3” (above) and match the (8 major) plates with their associated ocean basins.
(4) Further associated with the Earth’s crust, there are 6 minor plates (again Fig. 3-10 will help), name them:
(4a) Are these “minor” plates associated with continents (why or why not)?
