Chapter 7 TEST

The idea that a supercontinent split into pieces that traveled in time

to their present locations

• Plate boundaries

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

• Sea -floor spreading

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Boundaries where the plates pull apart

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform faults

• Subduction

The layer below the Earth’s crust where the plates slide on the lower

portion

• Inner core

• Mantle

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

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Hot, molten rock below the Earth’s surface

• Eruption

• Hot spring

• Lava

• Magma

Boundaries where the plates push together

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform faults

• Subduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

This is used to rate earthquakes from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most destructive

• Mercalli Scale

• Seismograph

• Richter Scale

• EarthQuaker

Huge ocean waves caused by seismic waves

• Sea-floor spreading

• Tsumani

• Earthquake

• Volcanic eruption

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The movement of Earth’s crust can be explained by the movement

of plates

• Sea-floor spreading

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

• Boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When a volcano becomes inactive for a long period of time, but

has erupted in recorded history

• Active

• Dormant

• Extinct

• Strata

The largest and deepest of all underground formations

• Dike

• Sill

• Batholith

• Laccolith