Vocabulary Quiz 11/13

The huge pieces of rock that make Earth’s outermost layer and “float” on the mantle.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Tectonic Plates

• Inner Core

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A location where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another.

• Transform Boundary

• Convection Current

• Fault

• Convergent Boundary

A location where tectonic plates are moving toward one another and colliding.

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Fault

• Convergent Boundary

A location where tectonic plates are moving away from one another and spreading apart.

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Fault

The crust and the uppermost, rigid section of the mantle.

• Mantle

• Crust

• Lithosphere

• Inner Core

The process of new oceanic crust being formed as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies. *Divergent boundary*

• Mantle

• Crust

• Convection Current

• Seafloor Spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The landmass that existed when all continents were joined together.

• crust

• Pangaea

• Lithosphere

• Tectonic Plates

The liquid, molten rock middle section of the mantle. Tectonic plates “float” on this layer.

• Lithosphere

• Crust

• Asthenosphere

• Mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Occurs when two tectonic plates collide, and one moves under the other and sinks into the mantle.

• Convection Current

• Divergent Boundary

• Subduction

• Fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that explains how tectonic plates move and change.

• Continental Drift

• Theory of Tectonic Plates

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3