Earth's Structure & Plate Tectonics

The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Lithosphere

• Pacific Ring of Fire

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move

• Subduction Zone

• Mariana Trench

• Plate Tectonics

• Plate Movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Solid, rigid layer that is broken up into 12 "puzzle pieces" that float on an unstable molten layer of the mantle

• Continental Drift

• Hotspot Volcanoes

• Mariana Trench

• Tectonic Plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth

• Mantle

• Crust

• Core

• Trench

The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core

• Crust

• Asthenosphere

• Mantle

• Core

The center of the earth made up of the outer core (layer of liquid metals) and the inner core (dense ball of solid metals)

• Core

• Mantle

• Crust

• Lithosphere

A German scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift

• James Watson

• Marie Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

A rigid layer made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Trench

• Tectonic Plates

Layer right below the lithosphere on which the tectonic plates "float"

• Asthenosphere

• Crust

• Lithosphere

• Mantle

"Plates" of lithosphere are moved around by the underlying hot mantle convection cells

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Plate Movement

• Asthenosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3