1. Vocab #8 Plate Tectonics
Mr. Addeo
Vocab #8 Plate Tectonics

2. Continental Drift
Hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth’s surface.

3. Theory Of Plate Tectonics
The theory that pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant motion driven by convection currents in the mantle.

4. Pangaea
The name of the single landmass that began to break apart over 200 million years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.

5. Plates
Sections of the lithosphere that slowly move over the asthenosphere carrying pieces of crust.

6. Fault
A break in Earth’s crust along which rocks move.