Ch. 2 Plate Motion

Plate Boundary

• The place where two plates meet; most volcanoes and earthquakes occur here.

• The location where the food falls onto the table.

• Where one country ends and another begins.

• The edge of your patella.

The Earth’s entire outer layer (below the water and soil that we see) is made of _____ _____ _____ that is divided into plates

At plate boundaries where the plates are moving away from each other, rock rises from the mantle and hardens, adding new solid rock to the edges of the plates called a _____

• trench

• landmass

• mid ocean ridge

• landform

At plate boundaries where plates are moving toward each other, this is _________

• convection

• convergent plate motion

• transform plate motion

• divergent plate motion

an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago

mantle

the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates

_____

a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

______

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

______

something we observe to be similar over and over again

_____

the place where two plates meet