Rock Cycle and plate tectonics

The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.

• lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• convection

The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid.

• plate

• compression

• convection

The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth´s surface.

• continental drift

• lithosphere

• convection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.

• continental drift

• plate

• lithosphere

A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.

• plate

• mantle

• rock cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that pieces of Earth´s lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• rock cycle

• plate tectonics

• asthenosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A series of processes on the surface and inside the Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.

• rock cycle

• plate

• lithosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A break in Earth´s crust where masses of rock slip past each other.

• plate

• fault

• rock cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2