Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

The theory that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart (a)  

• CONTINENTAL DRIFT
• SEAFLOOR SPREADING
• PLATE BOUNDERIES
• CONVECTION CURRENTS

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Forms where plates are moving away from each other is called _______.

• Divergent
• Convergent

• Transform

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Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding. (a)  

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

• Panthalassa

• Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

(a)   a theory that a new sea floor is created at mid-ocean ridges and that in the process the continents are pushed apart from each other.

• PLATE TECTONIC
• SEA-FLOOR SPREADING
• FAULTS
• SEISMOMETER

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A satellite image can help scientist locate the area where two continental plates have diverged by showing the existence of (a)  

• Plateaus
• Mountains
• Rift Valleys
• Grassy Plains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A device that can detects small changes in magnetic fields is called a(n)

• sonar

• magnetometer

• spectrograph

• underwater telescope

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What happens when the flow in the outer core changes, and Earth's magnetic field changes direction? (a)  

• magnetic symmetry
• paleomagnetism
• core reversal
• magnetic reversal

The study of the history of Earth's magnetic field is called...

(a)  

• Paleomagnetism
• Isochron
• Magnetic Reversal
• Compass

An imaginary line on a map that shows points that have the same age is called a(n) (a)  

• isotope
• isometric
• isochron
• equator