Plate Motion Vocabulary

Front

What is a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole?

Back

A system

Front

What is an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see?

Back

Model

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Front

What is the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates?

Back

Mantle

Front

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

Back

Fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Front

What is a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like?

Back

Cross section

Front

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

Back

Crust

Front

What is the process by which tectonic plates move and interact?

Back

Plate tectonics

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

What is the term for the boundary where two tectonic plates meet?

Back

Plate boundary

Front

What is the name of the process that forms mountains when two continental plates collide?

Back

Mountain building (or Orogeny)

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Front

What is the term for the movement of the Earth's plates due to convection currents in the mantle?

Back

Plate motion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1