Plate Motion Vocabulary

Front

What is the term for how often or fast something happens?

Back

rate

Front

What is the term for hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth?

Back

magma

Front

What extinct reptile lived about 300 million years ago?

Back

Mesosaurus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Front

What do we call the processes in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth?

Back

volcanic activity

Front

What is evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints, called?

Back

fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Front

What is the theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates?

Back

plate tectonics

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

What is the name of the boundary where two tectonic plates meet?

Back

plate boundary

Front

What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other?

Back

divergent boundary

Front

What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates collide?

Back

convergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Front

What is the process called when one tectonic plate is forced under another?

Back

subduction

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1