STAAR Earth Science

Exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Plate Boundary

Landform created by two diverging continental plates

• Volcanic Island

• Trench

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An underwater mountain system formed by diverging oceanic plates

• Mountains

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

• Volcanic Islands

• Trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Monkey Bread

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Tectonic plates that move toward one another

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Interstitial

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle

• Mountain Formation

• Volcanic Mountains

• Rift Valleys

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Tectonic plates that slide past each

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subducting

Land feature that forms when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone

• Trench

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, which constitute the hard and rigid outer layer of the Earth; plates of the earth

• Asthenosphere

• Atmosphere

• Troposphere

• Lithosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The layer of the Earth that lies below the lithosphere where convection of the mantle takes place

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Atmosphere

• Aroundasphere