Plate Tectonics Vocab

The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

• Faults

• Sea-floor spreading

• Folding

• Continental drift

The theory that explains how large pieces of the earth's outermost layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shape

• Convergent boundary

• Plate tectonics

• Oceanic-oceanic collisions

• Divergent boundary

Which boundary does this figure represents?

• divergent bounday

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• normal fault

Which boundary does this figure represents?

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

Which boundary does this figure represents?

• Transform boundary

• Divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

The thin and solid outermost layer of the earth above the mantle

• core

• mantle

• crust

• mass

the layer of rock between the earth's crust and core

• crust

• core

• mantle

• iron

the central part of the earth below the mantle

• crust

• manlte

• core

• lithosphere

The earth is divided into three layers called

• ridge push, convection, slab pull

• stratosphere, lithosphere, mesosphere

• outer core, inner core, lithosphere

• crust, mantle, core

The thin, solid, outermost layer of Earth; is either continental (landmasses) or oceanic (ocean floors)

• mantle

• crust

• Pangea

• earthquake