Vocabulary Book #16

Front

The outermost layer of the Earth, made up of rock and floating on the denser mantle

Back

Earth's Crust

Front

large, solid slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, and move independently on the mantle's currents

Back

Tectonic Plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

The process of transferring heat through air or liquid currents.

Back

Convection

Front

A linear feature where two tectonic plates move apart.

Back

Divergent boundary

Front

A place where two or more tectonic plates meet and move towards each other.

Back

Convergent Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

A place where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally.

Back

Transform Boundary

Front

A geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates.

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Subduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Front

A supercontinent that existed from about 300–200 million years ago during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

A scientist who studies earthquakes and seismic waves that travel through the Earth.

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Seismologist

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Front

A large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a collective region.

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Continent