Plate Tectonics vocab quizz

The mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans.

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Sea-floor spreading

• Subduction

• Ocean Trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge.

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Sea-floor spreading

• Ocean trench

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate.

• Subduction

• Mid Ocean Ridge

• Ocean trench

• Sea Floor Spreading

The land surface under the ocean.

• Subduction

• Ocean Basin

• Sea-floor spreading

• Mid Ocean Ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The boundary between two plates that move away from each other.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Ocean Trench

Forms where two plates collide.

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Sea Floor Spreading

Forms where two plates slide past each other.

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Mid Ocean Ridge

States that Earth's surface is divided into large plates of rigid rocks that move with respect to each other.

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor Spreading

• Subduction

Hypothesis which suggests that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth.

• Continental Drift

• Superposition

• Plate Tectonics

• Ocean Basin

The principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom.

• Superposition

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Sea Floor Spereading