Plate motion vocabulary

Question 1

Divergent

Answer 1

Moving apart in different direction

Question 2

Magma

Answer 2

Hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth

Question 3

Eruption

Answer 3

The sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano

Question 4

Plate boundary

Answer 4

The place where two plates meet

Question 5

Earthquake

Answer 5

A sudden shaking of Earth’s surface

Question 6

Continent

Answer 6

Any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land, such as Africa. Asia. and North America

Question 7

Fossil

Answer 7

Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

Question 8

Convergent

Answer 8

moving toward the same place

Question 9

Mid-Ocean ridge

Answer 9

an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart

Question 10

Plate

Answer 10

one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer

Question 11

Landform

Answer 11

a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune

Question 12

Trench

Answer 12

a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together

Question 12

Pattern

Answer 12

something we observe to be similar over and over again

Question 13

Rifting

Answer 13

the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement

Question 14

Mesosaurus

Answer 14

an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago

Question 14

Lava

Answer 14

hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth

Question 15

Outer layer

Answer 15

Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water

Question 16

Mantle

Answer 16

the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates

Question 17

Cross section

Answer 17

a digram that shows what the inside of something looks like