Plate Tectonics

Question 1

Divergent Boundary

Answer 1

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other

Question 2

Convergent Boundary

Answer 2

A plate boundary where two plates move towards each other

Question 3

Transform Boundary

Answer 3

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

Question 4

Subduction

Answer 4

The process by which oceanic sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary

Question 5

Plate Tectonics

Answer 5

A theory stating that earth’s surface is broken into plates that move

Question 6

Faults

Answer 6

A break in earth’s crust

Question 7

Rift Valley

Answer 7

A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart

Question 8

Convection Current

Answer 8

A current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid

Question 9

Continental Crust

Answer 9

A solid, thin outermost layer of earth under the continents

Question 10

Oceanic Crust

Answer 10

Earth’s crust located under the oceans (denser than continental crust)

Question 11

Pangaea

Answer 11

A supercontinent containing all of earth’s land that existed about 225 million years ago