Plate Tectonic Vocabulary

The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.

• Pangaea

• Continental Drift

• Supercontinent

• Terrestrial separation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Pangea

• Alfred Wegener's Theory of separating land masses

• A book about the origin of continents and oceans

• A combination of the African and South American continents

• A supercontinent made up of all other continents combined

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock

• Fossil

• Preserved remain

• Coal

• Wegener

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is a Glossopteris?

• A fernlike plant that lived 250 million years ago

• A freshwater reptile from off the coast of Africa

• Any preserved organism from the Precambrian Era

• A coal bed that began 250 million years ago in the center of Pangaea

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the process where mid-ocean ridges continually add new material to the ocean floor?

• Crust creation

• Deep ocean trenching

• sea-floor spreading

• Oceanic growth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is a deep-ocean trench?

• Destruction of ancient reef lines.

• Canyons created by subduction.

• A process where rows of oceanic mountains raise the sea floor surrounding a long strip.

• A process where part of the ocean floor sinks back into the mantle.

What is the process by which, over millions of years, part of the ocean floor sinks back into the mantle?

• deep-ocean trenches

• mid-ocean ridges

• stratification

• subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is a divergent boundary?

• Where plates move apart

• Where plates come together

• Where plates slip past each other

• Where plates sink into the mantle

What is a convergent boundary?

• Where plates move apart

• Where plates come together

• Where plates slip past each other

• Where plates sink into the mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is a transform boundary

• Where plates move apart

• Where plates come together

• Where plates slip past each other

• Where plates sink into the mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3