Tectonic Plates Vocab

a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle

• core

• tectonic plates

• subduction

• convergent boundary

• lithosphere

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

• subduction

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

the supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago

• tectonic plates

• continental drift

• Pangaea

• ocean trench

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

a deep, underwater trough created by one plate subducting under another plate at a convergent boundary

• subduction

• mid-ocean ridge

• trench

• continental drift

the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding

• tectonic plates

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

long, narrow mountain range on the ocean floor; formed by magma at divergent plate boundaries

• mid-ocean ridge

• trench

• continental drift

• divergent boundary

Wegener's hypothesis which suggested that the continents are all in constant motion on Earth's surface

• Pangaea

• mid-ocean ridge

• continental drift

• tectonic plates

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

the process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate

• transform boundary

• subduction

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• subduction

• transform boundary