Earth Science Chapter 5

A single rock layer

• Geologic Column

• Magma

• Strata

• Stratum

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The model constructed by geologists of rock strata by comparing rock strata from many locations all over the world:

• Geologic Column

• Principle of Superposition

• Strata

• Stratum

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Multiple rock layers

• Geologic Column

• Principle of Superposition

• Strata

• Stratum

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A model of plate tectonics that proposes that the continents we see today formed during the one-year period of the Flood

• Catastrophic Plate Tectonics

• Nebular Hypothesis

• Principle of Superposition

• Runaway Subduction

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The vertical layering of rock strata in any undisturbed sequence with the oldest layers being at the bottom and the younger layers being in order above it.

• Deep Time View

• Geologic Column

• Principle of Superposition

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The tectonic process that thin and denser oceanic crust slowly slides down and under more massive but less dense continental crust:

• Principle of Superposition

• Seafloor spreading

• Subduction

• Tectonics

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

A model that explains the shape and arrangement of present continents and their features as the product of the motion of tectonic plates

• Continental Drift Theory

• Deep Time View

• Subduction

• Tectonics

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A section of the earth's crust that moves as a unit

• Geologic Column

• Magma

• Stratum

• Tectonic plates

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The cycling and upwelling of this is what drives the process of seafloor spreading

• Geologic Column

• Magma

• Subduction

• Tectonic plates

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The study of earth-shaping processes and the structures they form

• Continental Drift Theory

• Nebular Hypothesis

• Principle of Superposition

• Tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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