Plate Tectonics Color-by-Number

Continental Drift

• A theory suggesting that continents were once single landmass that broke apart and moved (DARK GREEN)

• Theory that explains changes in Earth's crust by internal forces (BLUE)

• The study of the lithospheric plates, their movements, and Earth features that they affect (LIGHT GREEN)

Asthenosphere

• Rigid blocks of Earth's crust and upper mantle (PEACH)

• Region where a plate descend beneath another plate (BLACK)

• Zone of weak, plastic-like material in the mantle (DARK GREEN)

Plate tectonics

• Hypothesis proposed by Wegener that led to the theory of continental drift (PURPLE)

• Theory that explains changes in Earth's crust by internal forces (BLUE)

• A theory suggesting that continents move (DARK GREEN)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Lithosphere

• Zone of weak, plastic-like material in the mantle (DARK GREEN)

• Rigid block of Earth's crust and upper mantle (PEACH)

• Layer in the upper mantle on which continents move (BLACK)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Subduction Zone

• Region where 2 plates sink into the asthenosphere (PEACH)

• Process in which one lithospheric plate slides past another (BLUE)

• Region where a plate descends beneath another plate (BLACK)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Convergent boundary

• Area where 2 plates collide (LIGHT GREEN)

• Area where 2 plates pull apart (PURPLE)

• Area where 2 plates move past each other horizontally (YELLOW)

Transform boundary

• Area where 2 plates move past each other horizontally (DARK GREEN)

• Area where 2 plates collide (ORANGE)

• Area where 2 plates pull apart (LIGHT GREEN)

Divergent boundary

• Area where 2 plates move past each other horizontally (YELLOW)

• Area where 2 plates pull apart (DARK GREEN)

• Area where 2 plates collide (RED)

Earthquakes

• Formed when 2 plates seperate (BLACK)

• Formed when 2 plates slide past one another (LIGHT GREEN)

• Formed when 2 plates collide and one subducts beneath another (ORANGE)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Volcanoes

• Formed when 2 plates collide and one subducts beneath the other (BLUE)

• Formed when 1 plate rises up and the other plate sinks (PURPLE)

• Formed when 2 plates separate (BLACK)