Earth's Structure Practice

Match the following

• Convergent Plate

• 
• Divergent Plate

• 
• Transform Plate

• 

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Reorder the Earth's physical layers from the top to the center.

• Outer Core

• Lower Mantle

• Upper Mantle

• Crust

• Inner Core

Reorder the Earth's chemical layers from the top to the center.

• Core

• Mantle

• Crust

Which core layer is liquid?

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

Draw arrows that show a divergent plate boundary.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Draw arrows that show a convergent plate boundary.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Draw arrows that show a transform plate boundary.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

where two tectonic plates meet

• Plate boundary

• Inner Core

• Mountain

• At their favorite restaurant

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plate Tectonics

• the layer of the earth that lies between the crust and the core

• a theory that says the Earth’s surface is made of hard slabs of rock (we call these plates) that move

• a type of  convergent plate boundary where the denser plate sinks below the other plate

• a new type of music

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Earth is formed in layers because layers have different ___.

• Masses

• Densities

• Personalities

• States of matter