Plate Motion Vocabulary Quiz

Any of the Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America.

• continent

• earthquake

• fossil

• mantle

Convergent

• Moving apart in different directions

• Moving toward the same place

• Moving sideways

Divergent

• Moving apart in different directions

• Moving toward the same place

• Moving sideways

Sudden shaking of earth's surface

• fossil

• landform

• earthquake

• plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together

• mantle

• trench

• earthquake

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart

• mid-ocean ridge

• fossil

• earthquake

• mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones

• landform

• earthquake

• mantle

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.

• fossil

• landform

• cross section

• mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune.

• landform

• mantle

• fossil

• plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Hot, liquid rock on the surface of Earth

• fossil

• lava

• plate

• landform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2