Plate Tectonics

Study of plates, their movement, and Earth’s features that they affect

• Plate boundaries

• Plate Tectonics

• Major mountains

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

• Transform

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Boundary between two plates where the plates are sliding past each other

• Divergent-

• Convergent-

• Transform-

Forms where plates are moving away from each other

• Divergent-

• Convergent-

• Transform-

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding

• Divergent-

• Convergent-

• Transform-

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The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia.

• Pangaea.

• Eurasia.

• Gondwana.

Tectonic plates consist of

• continental crust.

• mesosphere.

• both continental and oceanic crust.

• oceanic crust.

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The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of

• magnetic reversal.

• global positioning.

• continental drift.

• oceanic drift.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• lithosphere

• core

• asthenosphere

• mesosphere

What was the name of scientist who proposed Continental Drift?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegner

• Charles Rawls

• Steven Doring