Restless Earth Vocabulary

Sudden events that led to a mass extinction

• Convection Cycles

• Rapid Extinction Events

• Igneous

• Gradual Extinction Events

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Extinction events that occur over a longer time period

• Gradual Extinction Events

• Asthenosphere

• Tectonic Plates

• Pangaea

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A group of the same species living in the same area

• Tranches

• Fault

• Mountains

• Population

Instruments used to measure and record seismic waves

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Seismographs

• Divergent Boundaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Convection Cycle

Formed as a result of high temperature and pressure deep within earth changing a rock that already existed.

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Transform Boundary

Forms after weathering and erosion when sediments compact and cement

• Asthenosphere

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Hot material rises, cooler materials sink. It drives plate tectonics

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Convection Cycles

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Includes the crust and upper part of the mantle, and is divided into tectonic plates

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Tectonic Plates

The semi-fluid layer of the mantle where convection currents happen

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Mesosphere

• Sea-floor Spreading