Plate Tectonics

Front

What causes tectonic plates to move?

Back

Convection Currents

Front

The heat from convection currents comes from Earth's ______.

Back

Core

Front

What happens at a transform boundary?

Back

Neither subduct

Front

What happens at an Oceanic-Continental plate boundary?

Back

Oceanic plate subducts

Front

Convection currents in the ______ cause plates to move.

Back

Mantle

Front

What are tectonic plates?

Back

Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.

Front

What is the lithosphere?

Back

The rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

Front

What is subduction?

Back

The process where one tectonic plate moves under another plate and sinks into the mantle.

Front

What is a divergent boundary?

Back

A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

Front

What is a convergent boundary?

Back

A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide.