History of Exploration and Plate Tectonics Review

The theory that the continents have not always been in their present locations but have moved there over millions of years

• Continental Drift Theory

• Plate Tectonics

• Alfred Wegener

• Lystrasaurus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates move away from each other, and new crust is created between them

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other

• shear

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite, is less dense than oceanic crust, and is 20-50 km thick

• mantle

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere

Thinner, more dense, younger crust, primarily basaltic, making ocean floor

• mantle

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere

The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

• stressing

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• shearing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The type of plate boundary between South American Plate and Nazca plate is

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• uncertain/complex

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Oceanic and continental convergent plate boundaries form

• mountains and mountain ranges

• volcanoes and mountains

• deep-oceanic trenches and volcanoes

• island arcs, trenches, and mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a shear boundary?

• Rifts

• Mountains

• Valleys

• Earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2