Plate tectonic Vocabulary

___________ is the fracture zone of two blocks of rock that allow for movement of the Earth's surface.

• Sea-Floor Spreading

• Plate Boundary

• Fault

• Intrusive Igneous

__________________ is broken pieces of rock or living remains of shells, leaves, bones, and feces.

• Sediment

• Intrusive Igneous

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

____________________ is when the land moves vertically in comparison to their original location.

• Slip-Strike Fault

• Sea-Floor Spreading

• Plate Boundary

• Dip-Slip Fault

_______________ are the locations where two different tectonic plates touch.

• Lithosphere

• Fault

• Plate Boundaries

• Asthenosphere

_____________ is the upper layer of the Earth's mantle below the crust where convection occurs.

• Asthenosphere

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Plate Boundary

• Lithosphere

______________ are tectonic plates that move horizontally past one another.

• Dip-Slip Fault

• Intrusive Igneous

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Plate Boundaries

________________ is magma cools and hardens beneath the Earth's surface.the earth's crust.

• Intrusive Igneous Rock

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Lithosphere

• Fault

_______________ upper part of mantle and the earth's crust made up of solid rock.

• Asthenosphere

• Fault

• Plate Boundary

• Lithospshere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

_________________ is the process where magma from the the earth's mantle created new oceanic crust at mid ocean ridges.

• LIthosphere

• Sea-Floor Spreading

• Fault

• Intrusive Igneous

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