PLate Tectonic Theory Vocabulary

What is the name of the ancient supercontinent that contained all of the continents of the world Continental Drift Theory?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where is the area where a tectonic plate sinks below another plate into the asthenosphere

@convergent boundary?

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What are the currents caused by hot rock deep within the earth rising and the cooler rocks near the earth sinking @asthenosphere?

What occurs where plates are moving APART, as magma pushes up from the mantle, creating new crust. (seafloor spreading)?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What occurs where 2 plates slowly slide towards each other, sometimes forming a Subduction zone?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What occurs where plates slide of grind past each other?

What occurs at divergent boundaries, where new crust is created pushing the older crust further away?

What is the hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wagner stating that the continents are drifting further apart using similar fossils found on different continents and the shape of the continents (how they appear to ‘fit’ together) as evidence?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What (lithospheric plates) pieces of the

lithosphere that move on the asthenosphere?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This is someone who studies earthquakes?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2