Plate Tectonic Vocabulary

Area where one plate is pushing underneath another one.

• subduction zone

• divergent boundary

• continental drift

• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Solid, outermost layer of the earth made of plates and continents

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• core

• Seafloor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates that are moving apart from each other

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• subduction zone

• continental drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The second, more fluid layer of the earth where plates "float"

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• core

• continental crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the following

• Continental crust

• Boundary where two tectonic plates meet

• Plate boundary

• • thicker, less dense, forms landmasses, composed mostly of granite, generally older than oceanic crust

• Oceanic crust

• thinner, more dense, located under oceans and seas, composed mostly of basalt, generally younger than continental crust

This image shows the formation of a mountain range. At this ​ (a)   plate boundary, colliding plates are a ​ (b)   .

• convergent

• constructive force

• destructive force

• force field

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

​ (a)   the process by which rock material moves under Earth’s outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion

• subduction

• uplift

• weathering

• sediment

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ESS2.A

ESS2.C

ESS3.A

ESS3.C

Match the following

• Divergent boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move apart from each other

• Continental rifting

• The process by which a continent is pulled apart at a divergent plate boundary

• Subduction

• process in which two lithospheric plates of different densities converge and the denser one sinks into the mantle beneath the other

• Convergent boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

• Transform boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This image shows the formation of a mountain range at this ​ (a)   plate boundary.

• convergent

• destructive force

• force field

• divergent

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Label each plate boundary.

a

b

c

Divergent

Transform

Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3