Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

What is the term for the movement of earth continents over time?

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor Spreading

• Volcanic Eruption

• Plate Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the term for the circulation of particles within a material caused by differences and thermal energy and density?

• Convection Currents

• Thermal Expansion

• Radiation Transfer

• Diffusion

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the term for the boundary between two plates that move toward each other?

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Passive Margin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the term for the remains or impressions of ancient organisms preserved in rock?

• Fossils

• Minerals

• Crystals

• Sediments

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the term for a long, narrow mountain range on the ocean floor that forms from magma at a divergent boundary?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Trench

• Seamount

• Abyssal Plain

What is the name given to a supercontinent that began to break apart approximately 168 million years ago?

• Pangaea

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

• Rodinia

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge?

• Seafloor Spreading

• Subduction

• Continental Drift

• Plate Collision

What is the process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate?

• Subduction

• Erosion

• Faulting

• Uplift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the scientific theory explaining the movement of earths, lithospheric plates and the processes that occur at their boundaries?

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Law of Superposition

• Continental Drift Hypothesis

• Seafloor Spreading Theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the term for the boundary between two plates that slide past each other?

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Subduction Zone