Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

hypothesis which suggested that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• subduction

• Pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

forms where two plates slide past each other, horizontally

• transform plate boundary

• divergent plate boundary

• convergent plate boundary

• lithosphere

as a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force called

• convection

• ridge pull

• slab pull

• mantle

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

form where two plates collide; forms mountains

• divergent plate boundary

• subduction

• plate tectonics

• convergent plate boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is Pangaea?

• A German Scientist
• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
• continental drift
• an ancient fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the cold and rigid outermost rock layer

• ridge pull

• convection

• lithosphere

• mid-ocean ridge

the mountain ranges in the middle of the ocean

• mid-ocean ridge

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• con vection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a state in which magnetized objects, such as compass needles, will orient themselves to point north

• reversed polarity

• slap pull

• normal polarity

• push pull

the theory that states that Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other

• plate tectonics

• divergent plate boundary

• convergent plate boundary

• transform plate boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in this process

• convection

• lithosphere

• subduction

• convaction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3