Plate Tectonics Vocab
• STARTER:
• Pushing cart, mass being added, what is going to happen to the force as mass is added
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Announcements-
• Vocab Quiz Friday 1/8
• Frayer Model Vocab Due 1/8 before quiz
• If we are on task the rest of the week we will finish San Andreas after our quiz Friday 

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Your Definition:
The theory that the lithosphere is
Divided into tectonic plates that move around on tope of the asthenosphere
Picture:
Plate
Tectonics
Sentence:
Geologists study plate tectonics to find future stress points and earthquake zones
Definition:

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• The circular motion of liquids or gases caused by density difference that result from temperature differences.

Satellite Image
• A photograph taken from a satellite in space

Topographic Map
• Shows the elevation of natural and artificial features of a region

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• Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis that the continents were once joined together, but broke and drifted apart

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• Displacement of rock layers in the Earth's crust in response to stress

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• A long narrow hilltop or range of hills

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• The theory hypothesized by Alfred
Wegner that the lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move around on top of the asthenosphere

Plate Boundary
• The region where two tectonic plates meet

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• The boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other.

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Divergent Boundary
• The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

Mid-Ocean Ridges
• Huge underwater volcanic mountain ranges; where new crust is formed.

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• The process in which new ocean floor forms from magma released at boundaries between two oceanic plates

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Convergent Boundary
• The boundary between two colliding tectonic plate.

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• Region where one tectonic plate slides under another

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• A deep depression of the sea floor caused by the subduction of one plate under another

• Shaking of Earth’s surface due to the movement of earth’s crust.

Volcano
• An opening in Earth’s surface through which magma is released

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• The single, huge continent that existed 245 million years ago.

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• Formed when two continental plates move apart at a divergent boundary and new crust forms in the space between them

A & C-
Finish
Definition:
Sentence:
Sea Floor
Spreading
Your own
Words:
Picture:

A& C
Definition:
Sentence
Plate
Boundary
Your
Definition:
Picture

E:
 Complete using the word listed on your word wall strip.

• Create a wordwall. Include the word, definition, and image.
• If you do not finish today complete for homework.
• Remember Quiz Friday

Intro to Plate Tectonics
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What is the action and reaction force in this situation?

P: Plate Tectonic Interactive presentation
• YOU WILL COMPLETE THE LESSONS
FILL IN THE BLANK HANDOUT. PAY
CLOSE ATTENTION 
C: Interactivity: Tectonic Trouble

• Based on the presentation you just say we will take a quiz over what you has just seen.

1/8/16----Vocab Quiz
• SWhich of this models would be reactive and found on the left side of the
Periodic Table? Explain why.

• Good Luck!
• When you finish turn in up front.
Along with your Completed Frayer
Model.
• We will grade in class 