8ESS2 Vocabulary

a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle that move by convection currents

• tectonic plates

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

• sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time

• tectonic plates

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

• sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

 the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies

• tectonic plates

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

• sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock, specifically as it relates to the reversal of Earth's magnetic poles; also the magnetic properties that rock requires during formation.

• tectonic plates

• paleomagnetism

• continental drift

• sea-floor spreading

 the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies

• sea-floor spreading

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

• sea-floor spreading

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.

• sea-floor spreading

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally

• sea-floor spreading

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

in tectonic plates, the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.

• subduction zone

• Wegener

• Holmes

• Hess and Deitz

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

proposed the convection theory

• subduction zone

• Wegener

• Holmes

• Hess and Deitz

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3