Plate Tectonics

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• Core
• Mantle
• Crust

Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ____________________________.

• lava
• magma
• volcano
• earthquake

This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

• New Madrid

• Denali Fault

• Ramapo Seismic Zone

• San Andreas Fault

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

What is a divergent boundary? 

• two plates moving towards each other
• two plates grinding/sliding past each other.
• two plates moving away from each other
• plates that don't move at all

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

Plates slide grind/slide  past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged