Tectonic Plate and Earth's Layers

The part of the earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle and is split into tectonic plates is the

• lithosphere
•  crust
• asthenosphere
• mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Supporting Evidence: fossils, continent shape, landforms

• Continental Drift
• Seafloor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Supporting Evidence: subduction, earthquakes, volcanoes, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, older theories

• Continental Drift
• Seafloor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Supporting Evidence: discovery of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, core rock samples showing older rocks the farther that you get from the mid ocean ridge

• Continental Drift
• Seafloor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory stating the continents were once joined in a large mass that broke apart.

• Continental Drift
• Seafloor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics
• Pangaea

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The process for new oceanic lithosphere forming at mid ocean ridges

• Continental Drift
• Seafloor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics
• Pangaea

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

The theory that states that the Earth is divided into plates that float and move in slow, constant motion.

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor Spreading

• Plate Tectonics

• Tectonic Plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Volcanoes never form along subduction zones.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The circular pattern of heating, rising, cooling, sinking of magma in the mantle causing tectonic plates to move.

• Plate Tectonics
• Convection Currents
• Pangaea
• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Volcanoes are most often formed at this boundary.

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Normal
• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3