Lesson 3 Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Review

I'm the area of volcanic activity that develops above rising plumes of magma.

• hot spot

• tectonic plate

• Pangaea

• rift valley

I'm the huge underwater mountain ranges that are present in every ocean and circle Earth.

• deep ocean trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• continental-continental collision

• transform boundary

I'm one plate sinking beneath another.

• convection

• continental drift

• hot spot

• subduction

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

I occur where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• subduction

I state that Earth's surface is broken into huge, moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle.

• tectonic plates

• Pangaea

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• continental drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

I'm the name that Alfred Wegener gave to the huge supercontient that he proposed had once existed.

• Pangaea

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• continental drift

• tectonic plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

I'm the place where two plates converge, or push together.

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

• subduction

I'm the hypothesis that proposed that Earth's continents were once joined in a single landmass and then gradually moved apart.

• Pangaea

• continental drift

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• tectonic plates

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

I'm a plate with oceanic crust sinking under a plate with continental crust.

• continental-continental collision

• oceanic- oceanic subduction

• oceanic-continental subduction

• hot spot

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

I'm the motion created when heated material continually rises, cools, and sinks in a pattern.

• convection

• convection current

• subduction

• collision

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5