Tectonic Plates

What are Tectonic plates?

• Large moving pieces on Earth's surface that are made of rock.

• where two plates divide

• The inner core of the earth

• where magma rises up and solidifies

What is the Asthenosphere?

• Huge supercontinent

• Where two plates slide

• The upper layer of the Earth's mantle, below the lithosphere.

• surrounds the moon

What are divergent Plate Boundaries?

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

• Where two plates slide

What are Convergent Plate Boundaries?

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

• Where two plates slide

What are Transform Plate Boundaries?

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

• Where two plates slide

What is seafloor spreading?

• Large pieces of lithosphere that move.

• Layer made up of the crust and uppermost mantle

• The super continent that existed millions of years ago

• Process by which new oceanic crust forms when magma rises up and solidifies at the mid-ocean ridge.

What is subduction?

• where one tectonic plate sinks below another

• Where two plates slide

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

How do tectonic plates move?

• Wind

• Convection currents

• Water

What type of tectonic plate is this?

• Subduction

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

What type of tectonic plate is this?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Subduction

• Transform