Plate Tectonics Reading Passage

Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock that move with respect to each other.

Earth's surface is expanding due to the formation of ocean crust.

Earth's surface is shrinking due to subduction zones.

Earth's surface is static and unchanging.

Divergent, Convergent, Transform

Convergent, Divergent, Parallel

Transform, Parallel, Divergent

Convergent, Transform, Static

Convection currents in the mantle

The rotation of the Earth

The gravitational pull of the moon

The expansion of the Earth's crust

Pacific Plate

Eurasian Plate

African Plate

North American Plate

The cold and rigid outermost rock layer of Earth

The hot and semiplastic layer beneath the crust

The molten core of the Earth

The layer where tectonic plates are formed

An area where a denser plate descends into the Earth along a convergent plate boundary

A region where two plates slide past each other

A location where new oceanic crust is formed

A zone where tectonic plates are static

Transform plate boundary

Convergent plate boundary

Divergent plate boundary

Subduction zone