Plate Motion

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• mantle

• cross section

• continent

• landform

a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together

• trench

• lithosphere

• surface

• system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates

• outer layer

• cross section

• mantle

• model

Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water

• pattern

• mid ocean ridge

• plate

• outer layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago

• rifting

• Mesosaurus

• trench

• volcanic activity

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

moving toward the same place

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• eruption

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

: evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• convergent

• trench

• fossil

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

moving apart in different directions

• convergent

• transform

• mid-ocean ridge

• divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart

• mid-ocean ridge

• cross section

• outer layer

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer

• divergent

• plate

• plate boundary

• fossil