6.10CD Tectonic Plates & Geological Events

boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• Ring of Fire

a tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• continental drift (Pangea)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

• transform boundary

• seafloor spreading

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

the formation of new ocean crust as a result of magma pushing upward and outward from Earth's mantle to the surface.

• seafloor spreading

• Ring of Fire

• continental drift (Pangea)

• geological event

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

the chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim

• continental drift (Pangea)

• seafloor spreading

• geological event

• Ring of Fire

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

• Ring of Fire

• geological event

• continental drift (Pangea)

• plate tectonics

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

a change to the structure of the earth by tectonic activities

• geological event

• plate tectonics

• continental drift (Pangea)

• Ring of Fire

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• subduction

• fault

• plate tectonics

• boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

• subduction

• fault

• plate tectonics

• boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

• subduction

• fault

• plate tectonics

• geological event