Plate Tectonics
Jesy Chavez Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary Match
Match the vocabulary term with the correct definition.
The colliding of two tectonic plates.
Convection Currents
The sliding of two plates past each other, resulting in earthquakes and faults.
Subduction Boundary
When two tectonic plates collide and the denser plate sinks beneath the other.
Divergent Boundary
Movement of liquids or gasses caused by the rising of warmer less dense material and the sinking of cooler more dense material.
Convergent Boundary
The movement of tectonic plated away from each other.
Transform Boundary
Boundaries & Convection Currents
Word bank:
Cooler material
Warmer material
Divergent
Convergent
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift. To prove his theory, he provided several pieces of evidence. Which of the following did he not suggest? (Could be multiple answers)
That the seafloor was spreading.
There were similar fossils across different continents.
Coal deposits were found in various continents.
Glacial striations in Africa.
The continents fit like puzzle pieces.
Mountains, such as the Appalachians, are similar to those found in Greenland and Europe.
New crust forms at mid-ocean ridges.
What kind of boundary is at the Nazca plate and Pacific plate?
What kind of landform can we expect at the boundary of the Eurasian and Indian plates?
What landform can we find where the North American and Eurasian plates meet?
Match the pairs correctly.
Subduction
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
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