Plate Tectonics vocab quizz

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Undersea mountain chain producing new ocean floor; a divergent boundary.

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Process adding new oceanic crust to ocean floor.

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Sea-floor spreading

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Oceanic crust sinks beneath a trench into the mantle at a convergent boundary.

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Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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An undersea valley that is one of the ocean's deepest parts.

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Ocean trench

Front

A plant boundary where two plates move apart.

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Divergent Boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.

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Convergent Boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Plate boundary where two plates move past each other.

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Transform Boundary

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A fault where the hanging wall slides down due to crustal tension.

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Normal Fault

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A fault where the hanging wall moves up due to crustal compression.

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Reverse Fault

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Type of fault where rocks move sideways with minimal vertical motion.

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Strike-slip Fault