vocabularyName that Plate boundariesSome more vocabulary Tectonic Plates Re-teach the Rock cycle

VOCABULARY-100 A super continent or single land mass existing 200 million years ago made up of the Earth’s current seven continents. Pangaea

VOCABULARY-200 A German scientist responsible for developing the Theory of Plate Tectonics Alfred Wegener

VOCABULARY-300 A zone where tectonic plates collide into each other resulting in mountain formation, Earthquakes, and volcanic activity. Convergent

VOCABULARY-400 A process where new crust on the ocean floor is created through uplifting magma which spreads apart as it cools Sea-Floor Spreading

VOCABULARY-500 The process in which one edge of a tectonic plate is forced beneath the edge of another plate. Subduction

NAME THAT PLATE-100 North American plate

BOUNDARIES-200 Mid-Atlantic Ridge

NAME THAT PLATE-300 Pacific plate

NAME THAT PLATE-400 Indo-Australian plate

NAME THAT PLATE-500 Arabian plate

BOUNDARIES-100 Earthquakes can occur at what types of plate boundaries? (Name all that apply) Convergent and Transform

BOUNDARIES-200 The Himalayan mountains are created at what type of plate boundary Convergent boundary

BOUNDARIES-300 Subduction zones where trenches may be found are part of what type of plate boundary? Convergent

BOUNDARIES-400 The San Andreas Fault is a transform boundary, what two plates make up the San Andreas Fault? Pacific and North American

BOUNDARIES-500 The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is where sea-floor spreading occurs. What type of plate boundary is this called? Divergent

SOME MORE VOCABULARY-100 Large segments of the outer layer of Earth (lithosphere) which drifts and float on the asthenosphere? Tectonic plates

SOME MORE VOCABULARY-200 Theory which states that the Earth’s outer layer is made up of rocky plates which drift and move on a thick layer of molten rock. Theory of Plate Tectonics

SOME MORE VOCABULARY-300 A zone where tectonic plates move away from each other forming new crust as magma rises to the surface. Divergent

SOME MORE VOCABULARY-400 Plate boundaries that slide along each other in opposite directions Transform

SOME MORE VOCABULARY-500 This layer of the Earth contains magma and convection currents. This layer also allows the lithosphere to move. Asthenosphere

TECTONIC PLATES-100 What happens to the plate as it subducts under another plate It melts

TECTONIC PLATES-200 The “Ring of Fire” mostly circles around which plate Pacific plate

TECTONIC PLATES-300 When the edge of tectonic plates shift and energy is released, what is the result? An earthquake

TECTONIC PLATES-400 According to the Theory of Plate Tectonics, where do most volcanoes occur? Along the plate boundaries

TECTONIC PLATES-500 What is not a limitation of using model of a volcano The scale of the volcano + It cannot show the actual details of an eruption

ROCK CYCLE RE-TEACH-100 At what point does the rock cycle end The rock cycle does not have an ending point

ROCK CYCLE RE-TEACH-200 What process is occurring at #3 Compaction and cementation

ROCK CYCLE RE-TEACH-300 Which picture best represents the layers of the Earth

ROCK CYCLE RE-TEACH-400 Most of the ocean is a type of rock called basalt. At the edge of the continent, this basalt erodes and becomes small particles. Over time, the particles are compressed and form what type of rock? Sedimentary rock

ROCK CYCLE RE-TEACH-500 Intrusive igneous rocks are rocks that cool inside the Earth. What can be used to identify INTRUSIVE igneous rocks? Large crystals

NAME THAT PLATE-200 Nazca Plate