U3L2 Ohio Science Fusion Gr 8

The scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift.

• Wegener
• Holmes
• Hess
• Deitz

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The hypothesis that today's continents were once part of a single landmass.

• Continental Drift
• Slab Pull
• Ridge Push
• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The theory that states that Earth's surface is made up of giant moving slabs.

• Plate Tectonics
• Continental Drift
• Slab Pull
• Ridge Push

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

A system of ideas that explains many related observations about the natural world.

• Theory
• Law
• Hypothesis
• Variable

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

The process by which new sea floor forms

• Sea-Floor Spreading
• Subduction
• Magnetic Reversal
• Continental Drift

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The process by which one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another plate.

• Subduction
• Sea-Floor Spreading
• Theory
• Plate Tectonics

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A change of Earth's magnetic poles.

• Magnetic Reversal
• Subduction
• Sea-Floor Spreading
• Convection Current

A circular movement of matter that results from differences in density.

• Convection Current
• Magnetic Reversal
• Subduction
• Sea-Floor Spreading

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

Underwater mountain belts where magma rises and solidifies.

• Mid-ocean ridges
• Oceanic Lithosphere
• Continental Lithosphere
• Himalayas

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The process where newly formed rock at mid-ocean ridges pushes the older oceanic slab in front of it.

• Ridge Push
• Slab Pull
• Convection Current
• Magnetic Reversal

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1