Restless Earth

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Transform Boundary

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

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Convection Cycles

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

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Tectonic Plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Mesosphere

• Sea-floor Spreading

Large, rigid pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other along plate boundaries

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

tectonic plates move away from each other, usually forms new crust and rift valleys

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

1. tectonic plates move toward each other, usually forms mountains and volcanoes.

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

where tectonic plates SLIDE past each other. Causes earthquakes

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Tectonic Plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2