Plate tectonic

Gigantic pieces of the earth crust and uppermost mantle. Made up of oceanic crust and continental crust

• Earth's layers
• Tectonic plates
• Crustal fragments
• Mantle chunks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

hypothesis that earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over time.

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• earthquake theory
• landmass migration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a supercontinent during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras

• Pangaea
• Atlantis
• Laurasia
• Gondwana

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the lightest, most buoyant rock layer 20-80 Km thick

• Earth's crust
• Inner core
• Outer core
• Mantle's core

mostly solid bulk lies between earth's super heated core and it’s thing outer crust

• core
• crust
• ocean
• mantle

which is liquid iron/nickel 1300m thick and temps reaching 9000f

• Crust
• Mantle
• Outer core
• Inner core

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

innermost part of earth 1500m thick and it’s always under pressure

• Outer core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Inner core

are places where plates slide sideways past each other.

• Subduction boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other.
• Transform boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other.
• Convergent boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other.
• Divergent boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other.

When two plates come together, it is known as a

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• subduction zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other. Along these boundaries, earthquakes are common and magma (molten rock) rises from the Earth's mantle to the surface

• Transform boundary
• Subduction zone
• Convergent boundary
• Divergent boundary