Plate Tectonic Vocabulary

This scientist concluded that the continents must move over time. He shared his evidence and scientists gave the process its more familiar name: continental drift.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Bill Nye

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

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Even the fastest tectonic plates only move tens of ____ every year! Wow! That's a very short distance!

• meters

• miles

• centimeters

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The thin, solid, outermost layer of Earth; is either continental (landmasses) or oceanic (ocean floors)

• mantle

• crust

• Pangea

• earthquake

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The theory that continents were once connected but have drifted apart

• plate tectonics

• Pangea

• continental drift

• pyroclastic flows

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Plate:

• A large slap of soft soil underneath the earth's surface.

• It is considered to be a large piece of solid rock.

• a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere

• What we use to eat on.

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What is a Plate Boundary?

• When /When two plates meet.

• There are 3 different plate boundaries.

• Convergent, Divergent, Transform.

• The Edge of the plate at home.

TRANSFORM BOUNDARY

• A boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates are sliding past each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates collide with each other.

• There is no such thing.

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Large pieces of the lithosphere that slowly move on top of the asthenosphere.

• Tectonic Plate

• Pangea

• Continental Drift

• Subduction Zone

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When a continental crust and ocean crust interact at a convergent boundary this is know as subduction.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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DIVERGENT BOUNDARY

• A boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates are sliding past each other.

• A boundary where two tectonic plates collide with each other.

• There is no such thing.