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WorksheetsPlate Tectonic Vocab
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 6mins
When the crust is moving away from each other, it is called
convergent
divergent
transform
At a divergent boundary, lumps of crust pile up along the egdes.
These lumps are called...
ridges
guyot
landslides
When a divergent boundary is located underwater what type of feature is formed?
trench
subduction zone
mid ocean ridge
Which term means to move towards each other?
diverge
converge
transform
When crust converges and one side slides under the other what feature is formed?
trench
ridge
guyot
When continental crusts converge, the crust piles up on the surface. This process is called...
mountain range
subduction
uplift
When continental crusts converge, the crust piles up on the surface. The feature formed is called...
mountain range
subduction
uplift
A section of the earth's cust that moves together as one big piece is called
a plate
a continent
a glacier
When 2 materials of different density meet, the (a) material sinks.
