Plate Tectonics

A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.

• Pangea

• Gondwanaland

• Rodinia

• Pannotia

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that the continents have not always been in their present locations but have moved there over millions of years

• Continental Drift Theory

• Plate Tectonics

• Alfred Wegener

• Lystrasaurus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle.

• tectonic plate

• continent

• crust

• mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The place where two plates meet.

• plate boundary

• tectonic plate

• asthenosphere

• crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates move away from each other, and new crust is created between them

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it

• mountain chain

• rift

• subduction zone

• hot spot

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle

• buoyancy

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• Alfred Wegener

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite, is less dense than oceanic crust, and is 20-50 km thick

• mantle

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere