Plate Motion Vocabulary-Amplify

Front

analyze

Back

to examine in detail for a purpose

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Front

continent

Back

any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia and North America

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

convergent

Back

moving toward the same place

Front

cross section

Back

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

Front

divergent

Back

moving apart in different directions

Front

earthquake

Back

a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Front

eruption

Back

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Front

fossils

Back

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Front

geyser

Back

a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Front

subduction

Back

the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2