analyze

• a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground

• a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

• to examine in detail for a purpose

• moving toward the same place

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

continent

• any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia and North America

• an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago.

• something we observe to be similar over and over again

• the place where two plates meet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

convergent

• the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates

• a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together

• how often or fast something happens

• moving toward the same place

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

cross section

• a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

• a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth

• one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer

divergent

• evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune

• an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see

• moving apart in different directions

earthquake

• evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

• an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart

• the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

eruption

• any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America

• a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground

• the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano

• hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

fossils

• evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates

• to examine in detail for a purpose

• a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

geyser

• hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth

• hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth

• an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see

• a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

subduction

• Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water

• the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate

• one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer

• how often or fast something happens

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3