8th Grade Plate Motion Vocabulary

"To examine in detail for a purpose"

• Analyze

• Model

• Pattern

• Rate

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

"coming closer together to the same place"

• Convergent

• Analyze

• Earthquake

• Fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

different or moving in different directions.

• Magma

• Divergent

• Geyser

• Lava

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

"The preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments"

• Fossil

• Eruption

• Mantle

• Outer Layer

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

"slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithospheres"

• Plate

• Rate

• Rifting

• Model

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

"a hot spring in which liquid water intermittently boils, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air." l

• volcanic eruption

• Geyser

• land-form

• Hot Spring

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A is a feature that forms on the surface of a planet such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

"A sudden shaking in earths surface"

• Lava

• geyser

• Earthquake

• eruption

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

"A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like"

• lava

• Cross section

• divergent

• convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

"an explosion of steam and lava from a volcano"

• eruption

• Geyser

• earthquake

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2