A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.
Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Pangaea
Plate
Continent
Crust
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A break (crack) in Earth's crust along which rocks move.
Boundary
Rift
Fault
Canyon
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.
Volcanic vibrations
Tidal waves
Seismic waves
Plate tectonics
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago.
Antarctica
Africa
Pangaea
Gondwana
Laurasia
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The movement of fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another.
Energy transfer
Convection current
Seismic waves
Plate tectonics
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.
Sea-floor spreading
Rebuilding
Convection current
Seismic waves
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
Sea-floor spreading
Rift valley
Atlantis
Mid-ocean ridge
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