Plate Tectonics Vocab

5. They are formed when two plates collide and one plate goes underneath the other. They can erupt.
6. Plate boundaries where two tectonic plates converge and one plate is beneath the other.
9. It is a transform plate boundary, and it is there because of an earthquake that happened in California
10. An example of a divergent plate boundary that stretches along the Atlantic Ocean floor. It’s huge. Really huge.
11. They happen suddenly because of seismic activity.
14. It’s a place in the ocean where two divergent plates separate and create a new crust that pushes up magma.
15. They can be convergent, divergent, or transforming.
17. When two plates collide.
22. They form from volcanoes.
23. The part of Earth’s crust that is under water.
24. It’s caused by divergent plates separating and then it causes mantle convection.
25. They are what moves the plates.

1. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other.
2. Multiple mountains that are pretty close together.
3. A convergent plate boundary between the Eurasian plate and the Indian plate.
4. It’s an example of a divergent rift valley that is still forming in Africa. The Eastern plate is pulling away from the rest of the continent.
7. The part of Earth’s crust that is above sea level.
8. A plate boundary where two plates separate.
12. It is a path full of volcanoes and many earthquakes happen there. It’s a convergent plate boundary.
13. They are huge parts of Earth’s crust.
16. They are caused by convergent plates and subduction and they are found on the ocean floor.
18. A plate boundary where two plates collide and one plate is underneath the other.
19. An example of a convergent plate boundary. There are a bunch of active volcanoes in North America
20. When two plates separate.
21. A plate boundary where two plates collide.