Tectonics and landform evolution

Class preparation questions:

What is the general relationship between global climate gradients and continental position?  How has this changed over that last 100 million years of earth history?

Describe the general structure and topographic features of island arc systems, Cordilleran-type mountain ranges, collisional mountain belts, extensional mountains.

What are the basic geological and geophysical observations that support plate tectonics?

Where and how are earthquakes produced as as consequence of plate tectonics?