Vocabulary Book #16

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What is Pangea?

Back

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

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What is a divergent boundary?

Back

A linear feature where two tectonic plates move apart.

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What is subduction?

Back

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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What are tectonic plates?

Back

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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What is a continent?

Back

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

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What is a convergent boundary?

Back

A linear feature where two tectonic plates move towards each other.

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What is a transform boundary?

Back

A linear feature where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

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What is the Earth's lithosphere?

Back

The rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

Front

What is the mantle?

Back

The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core, composed of semi-solid rock that flows slowly.

Front

What is tectonic plate movement?

Back

The movement of the Earth's plates due to convection currents in the mantle.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3