Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

A wide volcano with gentle slopes that has been formed by quiet, runny lava flows.

• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano
• Fissure Volcano
• Cinder-Cone Volcano

When two plates collide and one plate slips below the other and down into the mantle. 

• Subduction
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Convection

Mountains created by movement of broken pieces of crust; some push upward others slide downward

• Folded Mountains
• Dome Mountains
• Fault-Block Mountains
• Volcanic Mountains

A moderate-sized volcano, has been formed by the alternating of lava flows and explosive eruptions

• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano
• Fissure Volcano
• Cinder-Cone Volcano

Mountains that are formed by the folding up of rock layers due to the collision of two plates

• Folded Mountains
  
• Dome Mountains
  
• Fault-Block Mountains
  
• Volcanic Mountains
  

A smaller, narrow volcano with steep slopes that has been formed by explosive eruptions.

• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano
• Fissure Volcano
• Cinder-Cone Volcano

The hot, plastic-like layer of Earth, made of magma. 

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core

The point on Earth's surface directly above the place in the rocks where an earthquake begins.

• Fault
• Epicenter
• Seismic Waves
• Focus

The cooler, outer rocky shell of Earth.

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core

The boundary between two plates that slide past one another. 

• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Convergent Plate Boundary
• Transform Plate Boundary
• Subversive Plate Boundary