Plate Motion Vocabulary

to examine in detail for a purpose

• study

• analyze

• theory

any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America

• country

• city

• continent

moving toward the same place

• convergent

• divergent

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• venn diagram

• cross section

• pictograph

moving apart in different directions

• convergent

• divergent

evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• paleontologist

• fossil

• rocks

a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune

• landform

• mass of land

• continent

hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth

• magma

• volcano

• lava

hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth

• magma

• volcano

• lava

the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates

• crust

• lithosphere

• mantle