Chapter 10 Vocabulary

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

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• super-continent cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a long, undersea mountain chain that has a steep, narrow valley at its center

• paleomagnetism

• sea-floor spreading

• mid-ocean ridge

• plate tectonics

the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to earth's surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge

• mid-ocean ridge

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

• sea-floor spreading

the study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock

• magnetology

• paleotology

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

the theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere move and change shape

• asthenosphere

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• supercontinent cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

the solid, plastic layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere

• crust

• outer core

• inner core

• asthenosphere

the boundary between tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• shifting boundary

the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding

• convergent boundaries

• divergent boundaries

• transform boundaries

• shifting boundaries

the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• shifting boundary