Plate Motion Vocabulary

Any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth

• Plate Boundary

• Volcanic Activity

• Earthquake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

How often or fast something happens

• analyze

• pattern

• rate

One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer

• plate

• convergent

• pattern

Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water

• Pattern

• Outer layer

• Convergent

The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates

• earthquake

• plate

• mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Moving apart in different directions

• divergent

• volcanic activity

• analyze

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Moving toward the same place

• pattern

• convergent

• mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

To examine in detail for a purpose

• Outer layer

• Mid-ocean ridge

• analyze

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• divergent

• Cross section

• model

A sudden shaking of Earth’s surface

• Earthquake

• Plate boundary

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2