Tectonic Plate Vocab Quiz

Place where two different plates have contact

• Subduction

• Plate Boundary

• Plate Density

• Tectonic Plates

boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding

• transform boundary

• ocean basin

• Pangaea

• convergent boundary

A denser plate is pushed beneath a less dense plate when plates converge

• Subduction

• volcanic eruption

• mountain building

• transform boundary

Area of oceanic crust covered by seawater and surrounded by areas of continental crust

• Atlantis

• Spreading Ridge

• transform boundary

• Ocean Basin

boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving apart

• mountain building

• Divergent boundary

• crustal rock

• splitting plates

molten rock spews from the mantle to the surface of earth as ash, lava, and gases

• earth oozing

• sea floor spreading

• volcanic eruption

• mountain building

boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other

• convergent boundary

• convection

• mountain building

• transform boundary

supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago

• ocean basin

• Pangaea

• spreading ridge

• North Afristralia

major geological event that occurs when continental plates of equal density converge

• mountain building

• volcanic eruption

• tectonic plates

• transform boundary

can be thin, dense, and oceanic, or can be thick, less dense, and continental

• plate density

• subduction

• crustal rock material

• mountain building