SCIENNCE

plasticlike layer of Earth's surface below the lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• rust

• mantle

mainly granite. less dense and thicker than an oceanic crust. older than the oceanic crust.

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.

• continental drift

• convection currents

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid. due to the difference in temperature and density. these are the cause of seafloor spreading and continental drift.

• convention current

• continental drift

• boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

place where to plates move together

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

places where plates move apart

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

places where plates slide against each other

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

A _ is a volcanically active area of Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary.

A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one ocean beneath a second oceanic plate.

• island arc

• hot spring

• continental drift

• convection current

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

_ is a rigid layer of earth's surface made up of the crust and part of the upper mantle. floats on asthenosphere. makes up the tectonic plates.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3