Science Plate Tectonics

Idea that the continent slowly moved over earth's surface.

• Continental Drift

• Super Continent

• Continent

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Super continent

• Continental drift

• Fossil

• Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved as rock.

• Pangea

• Fossil

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Mountains formed by plate tectonics that rise up from the ocean floor. Forms the largest mountain ranges on Earth. Long mountain ranges in the ocean. New crust forms here!!

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Seafloor spreading

• Deep ocean trench

Continually adding new material to the ocean floor. A process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away. New crust in the middle and old crust on the outside.

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Deep ocean trench

• Seafloor spreading

Deep underwater canyon! Long, narrow depressions on the seafloor. These chasms are the deepest parts of the ocean—and some of the deepest natural spots on Earth.

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Deep ocean trench

• Subduction

Process in which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle. Where the oceanic lithosphere of a tectonic plate converges with the less dense lithosphere of a second plate, the heavier plate dives beneath the second plate and sinks into the mantle.

• Subduction

• Deep ocean trench

• Mid-ocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Pieces separated by cracks. Pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere.

• Rift valley

• Fault

• Tectonic plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart. Found both on land and at the bottom of the ocean, where they are created by the process of seafloor spreading.

• Rift valley

• Fault

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other. A fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the break.

• Tectonic Plates

• Rift valley

• Fault