Plate Tectonics Vocab

The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

• Submarine

• Subduction

• Conduction

• Reduction

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The thin layer of the Earth that the plates float on

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Atmosphere

Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks.

• Compression

• Stress

• Divergent

• Flex

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.

• Convergiant

• Divergiant

• Transform

• Boarder

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Break up

A break in Earth’s crust along which rocks move.

• Front

• Trench

• Fault

• Boundary

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Mesosphere

• Atmosphere

a hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart

• Panorama

• Pandamonium

• Pramesian

• Pangea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.

• Sea Floor Expanding

• Sea Floor Splitting

• Sea Floor Spreading

• Sea Floor Erupting

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Border