Earth 2 Vocabulary

The theory that all of Earth's continents were once joined together as one large landmass, broke apart, and moved to their current locations over time.

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Subduction

• Rift Valley

The area between two tectonic plates that are moving towards one another

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Subduction

The area between two tectonic plates that are moving away from one another

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction

Underwater mountain ranges that form when two oceanic plates move apart.

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Rift valley

• Subduction

A deep valley formed when two continental plates move away from each other

• Continental Drift

• Rift valley

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Subduction

The process of a more dense plate sinking underneath a less dense plate.

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Subduction

• Mid-ocean ridge

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The area between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other in opposite directions

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction

What forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates?

• rift valley
• mountain
• mid-ocean ridge
• trench

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A rift valley occurs at a ____________ boundary.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• horizontal

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What is the process in which hot molten rock rises, then cools and sinks back to the core?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• convection
• divergence

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