Plate Tectonics Vocab

What is a convergent boundary?

• A boundary between plates that are moving away from each other.

• The rocky outer layer of Earth.

• A boundary between plates that are moving toward each other.

• The rigid upper layer of the Earth.

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What causes most earthquakes?

• The division of Earth's crust into approximately 15 plates.

• The sudden movement of plates along plate boundaries.

• The formation of new crust at a divergent boundary.

• The collision between India and Eurasia.

What is the definition of plate tectonics?

• A boundary between plates that are sliding past one another.

• The movement of plates that make up Earth’s surface.

• An opening in Earth’s crust from which lava, gas, and ash erupt.

• A convergent boundary where one plate is sliding beneath another.

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What is a transform boundary?

• A convergent boundary where one plate is sliding beneath another.

• The movement of plates that make up Earth’s surface.

• A boundary between plates that are sliding past one another.

• An opening in Earth’s crust from which lava, gas, and ash erupt.

What is the lithosphere?

• A layer of the upper mantle where rocks can deform like plastic.

• The layer of Earth between the crust and the core.

• The rigid upper layer of the Earth.

• A rigid section of Earth's crust that moves very slowly.

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The theory that explains how large pieces of the earth's outermost layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shape

• Convergent boundary

• Plate tectonics

• Oceanic-oceanic collisions

• Divergent boundary

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A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle

• tectonic plate

• crust

• mantle

• core

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The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

• Faults

• Sea-floor spreading

• Folding

• Continental drift

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A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another is called

• fault

• folding

• compression

• tension

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The rising of regions of the earth's crust to higher elevations is called

• subsidence

• uplift

• fault

• folding

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