24/25 8th grade week 15 Vocab Quiz - GTS and plate tectonics

A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.

• paleozoic era

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other.

• faults

• divergent boundary

• pangaea

• Mesozoic

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Geologic time period that began 65 million years ago and continues today - "Age of mammals".

• Mesozoic

• precambrian era

• Cenozoic

• geologic time scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Large, ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together.

• paleozoic era

• convergent boundary

• pangaea

• faults

"Age of the Reptiles".

• Mesozoic

• pangaea

• paleozoic era

• faults

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

• convergent boundary

• paleozoic era

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

The theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past.

• continental drift

• divergent boundary

• plate tectonics

• convergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Occurred between 545 mya and 245 mya. Life: trilobites, ammonites, fish, reptiles.

• transform boundary

• paleozoic era

• mesozoic era

• pangaea

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

90% of earth's history, life appears and exists only in the sea.

• paleozoic era

• geologic time scale

• continental drift

• precambrian era

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Earth's history organized into four eras: Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic based on the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history.

• precambrian era

• plate tectonics

• convergent boundary

• geologic time scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4