Plate Tectonic Vocabulary

Ancient land mass where all continents were together

• Pangea

• North America

• continental plate

• continental drift

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Movement of heated materials. Hotter materials rise. Cooler materials sink.

• Convection Current

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Aesthenosphere

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Area where one plate is pushing underneath another one.

• subduction zone

• divergent boundary

• continental drift

• Plate tectonics

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Solid, outermost layer of the earth made of plates and continents

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• core

• Seafloor

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Plates that are moving apart from each other

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• subduction zone

• continental drift

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The second, more fluid layer of the earth where plates "float"

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• core

• continental crust

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The plates on the ocean floor are moving apart from each other

• Seafloor spreading

• ocean floor divergence

• continental drift

• Seafloor convergence

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Earth's crust is made of large, solid pieces that move around on convection currents.

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Continental Drift Theory

• Survival of the Fittest Theory

• Gene Theory

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The continents were once all together but have slowly moved apart over time.

• Continental Drift Theory

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Seafloor Spreading

• Convection Current

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Plates that are running into each other.

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• Slip-slide boundary

• mid-oceanic ridge

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