Plate Motion Vocab - Amplify

Earth's layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation and water is called what?

• outer layer

• convergent

• plate

• mantle

One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer is ______________ .

• divergent

• outer layer

• plate

• mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When something is moving toward the same place, it is called what?

• divergent

• convergent

• plate boundary

• mantle

Any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land such as Africa, 

Asia and North America is called _________ .

• plate

• outer layer

• continent

• plate boundary

The place where two plates meet is called what?

• continent

• plate boundary

• divergent

• convergent

______________ is when something is moving apart in different directions.

• Divergent

• Mantle

• Convergent

• Plate Boundary

The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates is called what?

• outer layer

• plate

• plate boundary

• mantle

A sudden shaking of Earth's surface is called ______________ .

• trench

• earthquake

• fossil

• mid-ocean ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor when two plates move together is called what?

• earthquake

• trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• pangea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

___________ is an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago.

• Pangea

• Mesosaurus

• Fossil

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2