Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

Process by which one lithospheric plate slides under another, old crust is destroyed

• Subduction
• Lithosphere
• Pangaea
• Sea floor Spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plate boundary that forms when two plates move away from each other, new crust is formed

• Unbalanced Forces
• Convergent
• Ring of Fire
• Divergent

Plate boundary that forms when two plates collide

• Equator
• Convergent
• Earthquake
• Lithosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Forms from the rising magma where two ocean plates collide

• Fossils
• Density
• Subduction
• Volcanic island

Plate boundary that forms when two plates slide past one another

• Glaciers
• Ring of Fire
• Transform
• Pangaea

Undersea mountain range that forms where two plates move apart

• Island Arc
• Faults
• Ring of Fire
• Mid- ocean ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This feature deepens and widens as the plates move apart

• Fossils
• Rift Valley
• Volcanic island
• Mid- ocean ridge

Area where most if the volcanoes are located

• Convergent
• Rift Valley
• Ring of Fire
• Equator

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

• Convection Current
• Plate Tectonics
• Subduction
• Lithosphere

A feature formed as a result of a plate subduction.

• Convergent
• Plate Tectonics
• Trench
• Sea floor Spreading

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3