Geology
Plate Tectonic Vocabulary
Name__________
Any of the following vocabulary terms that are not in the glossary need to be looked up in the index or your
lecture notes.
1. Convergent boundary
2. Divergent boundary
3. Transform boundary
4. Continental drift
5. Plate tectonics
What did each of the following scientists contribute to plate tectonics? (Look them up by last name in the index
to find out where they are in the text):
6. Alfred Wegner
7. Arthur Holmes
8. Harry Hess
9. J.T. Wilson
10. Pangaea
11. Gondwanaland
12. Laurasia
13. Panthalassa
14. Convection
15. Asthenosphere
16. Lithosphere
17. Island arc
18. Hot spot
19. Mantle plume
20. Seafloor spreading
21. Paleomagnetism
22. Ring of Fire