Name ____________________________ Date ____________________ Class ____________

Motion and Energy

Review and Reinforce

Speed and Velocity

Understanding Main Ideas
Study the map below. Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.
Remember to include units in your answers as needed.

The Juan de Fuca

Plate is moving
southeast away from
the Pacific Plate
The Pacific Plate at a speed of
is moving north 29 mm/year.
against the
North American
Plate at a speed
of about
The Nazca Plate
5 cm/year.
is moving northeast
toward the
South American
Plate at a speed
of about 1.0 mm
every four days.

Earth's Plates

Juan
de Fuca
Plate
Cocos
Plate

North
American
Plate

African
Plate

Nazca
Plate

Pacific
Plate

Eurasian
Plate

Caribbean
Plate
South
American
Plate

Antarctic Scotia
Plate
Plate

1. Which plate is moving the fastest?________________________________

2. Which plate is moving the slowest?_______________________________
3. If the Juan de Fuca Plate continues to move away from the Pacic Plate at
the same speed, how many meters will it move in 10,000
years?________________________________________________
4. About how many centimeters does the Nazca Plate move in one
year?_________________________________________________________

Building Vocabulary
Define the following terms in the spaces provided.
5. speed
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
6. velocity
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

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