Earth Science Sol

A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle

• Weathering

• Sedimentary Rock

• Tectonic Plate

• Erosion

• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The movement of matter due to differences in density that are caused by temperature variations.

• Continental Drift

• Mantle

• Convection

• Plate Boundary

• Rock Cycle

A geologic process in which one edge of one crustal plate is forced below the edge of another.

• Convection

• Geological Time

• Continental Drift

• Subduction

• Erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The upper layer of the mantle made of partially molten rock and where the convection currents occur that cause the tectonic plates to move

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Erosion

• Plate Boundary

• Rock Cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A location where two tectonic plates interact and they can be divergent, convergent or transform.

• Plate Boundary

• Lithosphere

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Continental Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form the continents

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Subduction

• Continental Drift

• Plate Boundary

A naturally formed, inorganic solid with a crystalline structure

• Rock Cycle

• Metamorphic

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Mineral

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geologic processes

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Rock Cycle

• Convection

• Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rick

• Geological Time

• Rock Cycle

• Igneous Rock

The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.

• Continental Drift

• Igneous Rock

• Lithosphere

• Erosion

• Asthenosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2