Tectonic Plates

Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere and consist of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle

• tectonic plates

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere, including most of the landmasses of Europe and Asia.

• South American Plate

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Africa and the surrounding oceanic crust.

• African Plate

• South American Plate

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of South America and the oceanic crust extending to the Mid-Atlantic ridge.

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

• South American Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that is composed entirely of oceanic crust and lies beneath the Pacific Ocean

• Antarctic Plate

• Indo-Australian Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Atlantic Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Antarctica and the surrounding oceanic crust.

• Indo-Australian Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• African Plate

• Pacific Plate

the process in which a denser plate is pushed downward beneath a less dense plate when plates converge; occurs at continental to oceanic boundaries and oceanic to oceanic boundaries

• divergent boundaries

• volcanic eruptions

• subduction

• convergent boundary

Ridges formed from new crustal material at diverging oceanic plate boundaries

• Ocean Basin

• earthquakes

• spreading ridges

• transform boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Major geological events that occur when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy; frequent occurrences along all types of plate boundaries

• Volcano

• Earthquakes

• Tsunami

• Tornado

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Name this boundary

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform
• Sergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3