Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

Large pieces of the Lithosphere that moves on top of the Asthenosphere is called?

• Pangaea

• Tectonic Plates

• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The upper layer of the Earth's mantle is called?

• Crust

• Plate

• Asthenosphere

The layer made up of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle is called?

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• mantle

The theory that all of the Earth's continents were once joined together into a single s]large landmass and then starting drifting away.

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

• Plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The single large supercontinent that existed millions of years ago when all the Earth's continents were joined together.

• Continental Drift

• Plates

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Where two plates divide.

• Divergent Plate Boundaries

• Convergent Plate Boundaries

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where two plates collide

• Plates

• Convergent Plate Boundaries

• Divergent Plate Boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where two plates slide

• Transform Plate Boundaries

• Plates

• Convergent Plate Bounaries

The process by which new oceanic crust forms when magma rises up and solidifies at the mid-ocean ridge.

• Pangea

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

When one tectonic plates sinks below another.

• Plates

• Seafloor Spreading

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3