Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Review

An extremely deep area of the ocean floor where an oceanic plate is moving below a continental plate

• Island Arc

• Volcano

• Trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

plate boundary where two plates separate or divide

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges where new crust is formed

• Earthquake

• Seafloor Spreading

• Trench

sudden and violent shaking of the ground usually cause by movement of the Earth's plates

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Mountain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

process that occurs when one plate moves beneath another plate because it is more dense

• Transform

• Earthquake

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

long, elevated region on the ocean floor located at a divergent boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• rift valley

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

location where one tectonic plate comes in contact with another

• Ring of Fire

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Plate Boundary

fracture or break in the rocks that make up the Earth's crust

• Island Arc

• Subduction

• Fault

landform created when a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate

• Earthquake

• Mountain

• Volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

boundary where two plates slide past each other

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3