1. Plate Tectonics

2. Vocab Words
Cardio—heart
Phlebo—vein
Bronch—windpipe
Pneumo—lung
Laryng—voicebox

3. List larger words containing our vocab words.

4. Theory of Plate Tectonics
The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth’s surface is composed of slowly moving plates.
Plates are made of minerals and are different shapes and sizes.

5. What evidence might geologists use to prove that plate tectonics is real.

6. Plate Movement
The rift zone is the space between two separating plates that fills with magma.
Subduction is the process of plate movement in which an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate.
A transform fault occurs when 2 plates move by each other but do not collide.