Vocabulary Book #16

The outermost layer of the Earth, made up of rock and floating on the denser mantle

• Earth's Crust

• Core

• Continents

• Low Mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

large, solid slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, and move independently on the mantle's currents

• Continents

• Tectonic Plates

• Convergent

• Transform Boundary

The process of transferring heat through air or liquid currents.

• Recurrent

• Position

• Convection

• Earth's Mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A linear feature where two tectonic plates move apart.

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

A place where two or more tectonic plates meet and move towards each other.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

A place where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

A geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates.

• Convection

• Subduction

• Plates

• Movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A supercontinent that existed from about 300–200 million years ago during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

• Earth

• Maps

• Pangea

• Continent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A scientist who studies earthquakes and seismic waves that travel through the Earth.

• Seismologist

• Biologist

• Psychologist

• Chemist

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a collective region.

• Core

• Pangea

• Continent

• Boundary