Plate Tectonics

The Earth's outermost layer, where we live. It is solid and includes the continents and ocean floors

• Crust

• Plates

• Lothosphere

• Pangea

A supercontinent that existed millions of years ago, where all the current continents were joined together as one landmass

• Crust

• Snelgrove City

• Pangea

• Pangolie Land

A device used to map the ocean floor by emitting sound waves and measuring how they bounce back

• Sound Settings

• Sonar

• Song of Waves

• Sound Mapper

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When one tectonic plate moves under another plate, usually causing Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity

• Mantle

• Crust

• Divergent

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When one tectonic plate moves away from each other, forming a new crust between them

• Subduction

• Hot Spot

• Mantle

• Divergent

When two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally

• Sonar

• Subduction

• Crust

• Transform

When tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Large pieces of Earth's crust that float on the semi-fluid upper mantle

• Waves

• Mantle

• Tectonic

• Plates

Relating to the large-scale movements and changes in the Earth's crust

• Plates

• Tectonic

• Boundary

• Move, Crust. Get out the way

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle

• Mesosphere

• Atmosphere

• Lithosphere

• Boundaries