Unit 7-1 Voc Test 8th Grade

This explains how plates interact and how they are related to the processes such as earthquakes and mountain building.

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

• Deformation

• Sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form the continents.

• Subduction

• Continental drift

• Lithosphere

• Sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Tectonic plates that are colliding.

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Deformation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Lithosphere

The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move.

• Sea-floor spreading

• Lithosphere

• Subduction

• Asthenosphere

The solid, outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Divergent

• Convergent

One lithospheric plate moves beneath another plate.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Subduction

• Transform

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The process by which new oceanic lithosphere (sea floor) forms.

• Sea-floor spreading

• Convergent

• Subduction

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

• Deformation

The change in the shape of rock in response to stress.

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Divergent

• Deformation