Plate Tectonics

The earth's outer shell is divided into slabs of rock called ______ .

What is the driving force behind the movement of the plates?

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

What type of crusts are involved with one plate subducting beneath another?

What types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?

PICK TWO

At which boundary is crust neither consumed or created?

The earth's plates, rigid slabs of rock, are part of the ___ .

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

Forms where plates are moving away from each other is called _______.

Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding.

The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

Tectonic plates consist of____.

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by______.

Observe this diagram of a plate boundary. One statement BEST describes what is happening. It is that____