Vocabulary Book #16

Front

What is a place where two or more tectonic plates meet and move towards each other?

Back

Convergent Boundary

Front

What is the outermost layer of the Earth, made up of rock and floating on the denser mantle?

Back

Earth's Crust

Front

What are large, solid slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, and move independently on the mantle's currents?

Back

Tectonic Plates

Front

What is a linear feature where two tectonic plates move apart?

Back

Divergent Boundary

Front

What do you call a scientist who studies earthquakes and seismic waves that travel through the Earth?

Back

Seismologist

Front

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

Back

Subduction

Front

What is the boundary called where two tectonic plates slide past each other?

Back

Transform Boundary

Front

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

Back

Plate Tectonics

Front

What is the name of the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

Back

Richter Scale

Front

What geological feature is formed at a convergent boundary?

Back

Mountain Range