Plate Motion Vocabulary

to examine in detail for a purpose

• analyze

• ignore

• overlook

• forget

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia and North America

• Planet
• Continent
• Ocean
• Country

moving toward the same place

• divergent

• convergent

• continent

• compliment

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• cross section

• Bar graph
• Pie chart
• Line graph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

moving apart in different directions

• eruption

• convergent

• divergent

• continent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

• Earthquake
• Tsunami
• Volcanic Eruption
• Tornado

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano

• Eruption
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• Fossils
• Carbon dating
• DNA sequencing
• Radiometric dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground

• Geyser
• Volcano
• Waterfall
• River

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as mountain, channel, or sand dune

• model

• Atmospheric feature
• landform

• Cultural feature

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2