Plate Tectonics Test Review

The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Theory

• Plate Boundaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move

• Continental Drift

• Theory

• Plate Tectonics

• Plate Boundaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a system of ideas that explains many related observations about the natural world

• Law

• Theory

• Observation

• Subduction

An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

• Volcano

• Mid-ocean Ridges

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the process by which new sea floor is formed as it moves away from spreading centers in mid ocean ridges

• Mid-ocean Ridge

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Subduction

• Plate Boundaries

the process by which one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another plate

• Subduction

• Deformation

• Convection Currents

• Ridge Push

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A change of the magnetic poles

• magnetic shift
• magnetic inversion
• magnetic reversal
• magnetic flip

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

any movement of matter that results from differences in density

• Subduction

• Deformation

• Magnetic Reversal

• Convection Current

the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress

• Deformation

• Faults

• Convergent

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other and collide

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• All of these