Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

TRANSFORM BOUNDARY

• A boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates are sliding past each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates collide with each other.

• There is no such thing.

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DIVERGENT BOUNDARY

• A boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates are sliding past each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates collide with each other.

• There is no such thing.

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CONVERGENT BOUNDARY

• A boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates are sliding past each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates collide with each other.

• There is no such thing.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Scientist who originated the theory of continental drift.

• Charles Hess

• Pangea

• Alfred Wegener

• Ms. Meza

A single huge supercontinent that existed 245 million years ago.

• Pancakes

• Penguin

• Popcorn

• Pangea

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Large pieces of the lithosphere that slowly move on top of the asthenosphere.

• Tectonic Plate

• Pangea

• Continental Drift

• Subduction Zone

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The theory that all continents were once joined as one and have since moved apart.

• Continental Divide

• Continental Theory

• Continental Drift

• None of the answers are correct.

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The layer of the Earth between the crust and the outer core.

• Lithosphere

• Athenoshphere

• Pangea

• Mantle

The thin, usually younger, crust that underlies the oceans.

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Subduction Zone

• Convergent Boundary

The thick, usually older, part of the earth’s crust that forms landmasses.

• Oceanic Crust

• Continental Crust

• Mantle

• Athenosphere

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