Introduction to Plate Tectonics

___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• Seismic waves

• Convection current

• Divergent boundary

• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these events can ONLY happen on a DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?

• Rift Valley

• Mountain

• A peninsula

• An Insanely complex, long answer that you will click out of instinct.

What are Tectonic Plates?

• continent 

• The Trees in Vietnam 

• ThE PlaTES That MoVE uNdERGRound :)

• The Plates that move the Continents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.

• Fissure

• Rift valley

• Sea-floor spreading

• Fault

​ (a)   the process by which rock material moves under Earth’s outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion

• subduction

• uplift

• weathering

• sediment

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ESS2.A

ESS2.C

ESS3.A

ESS3.C

Match the following

• Convergent boundary

• process in which two lithospheric plates of different densities converge and the denser one sinks into the mantle beneath the other

• Transform boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move apart from each other

• Subduction

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another

• Divergent boundary

• A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the following

• Oceanic crust

• • thicker, less dense, forms landmasses, composed mostly of granite, generally older than oceanic crust

• Continental crust

• thinner, more dense, located under oceans and seas, composed mostly of basalt, generally younger than continental crust

• Plate boundary

• Boundary where two tectonic plates meet

This image shows the formation of a mountain range at this ​ (a)   plate boundary.

• convergent

• destructive force

• force field

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This image shows the formation of a mountain range. At this ​ (a)   plate boundary, colliding plates are a ​ (b)   .

• convergent

• constructive force

• destructive force

• force field

• divergent

• transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Drag the labels to the correct the locations on the diagram.

a

b

c

d

e

slab pull

divergent boundary

convergent boundary

Mid-ocean Ridge

trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3