Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

When two plates collide and one plate slips below the other and down into the mantle. 

• Subduction
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Convection

The boundary between two plates that collide with one another.

• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Convergent Plate Boundary
• Transform Plate Boundary
• Subversive Plate Boundary

A wide volcano with gentle slopes that has been formed by quiet, runny lava flows.

• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano
• Fissure Volcano
• Cinder-Cone Volcano

The hot, plastic-like layer of Earth, made of magma. 

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core

Mountains that are formed by the folding up of rock layers due to the collision of two plates

• Folded Mountains
  
• Dome Mountains
  
• Fault-Block Mountains
  
• Volcanic Mountains
  

The place in the rocks where pressure releases and an earthquake begins.

• Fault
• Epicenter
• Seismic Waves
• Focus

The hot, liquid layer of Earth, made of iron and nickel.

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core

The dense, solid center of Earth, made of iron and nickel.

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core

The boundary between two plates that pull apart from one another.

• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Convergent Plate Boundary
• Transform Plate Boundary
• Subversive Plate Boundary

The cooler, outer rocky shell of Earth.

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core