6th Grade Science Vocabulary

One big continent or land mass.

• Grass

• Land

• Pangea

• Epicenter

Is it true that Epicenter means the point on earths surface directly above an earthquakes focus

• true

• false

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Convergent Boundary

• A plate Boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.

• A region around a magnetic substance.

• Earths land based plants.

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The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantel at a convergent plate boundary.

• Plate Tectonics

• Epicenter

• Pangea

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Magnetic Fields

• A magnetic substance that keeps Earth together.

• The substance that makes magnets.

• A region around a magnetic substance.

• A magnetic substance that is found in the middle of the Earth.

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Developed the Continental Drift Theory.

• Alfred Waenger

• Geologic Events

• Plate Tectonics

• Continetal Drift

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Continental Plates

• Plates.

• Earths land based plates.

• Ocean based plates.

• Sky based plates.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Oceanic Plates

• Earths ocean based plates.

• Earths land based plates.

• Earths sky based plates.

• Earths air based plates.

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The theory that pieces of Earths lithosphere are in constant motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• Plate Tectonics

• Epicenter

• Pangea

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Geological Events

• Earths land based plates.

• One big continent or land mass.

• major events in Earths past based on geological time,using the study of the plants rock layer.

• Earths ocean based plates.

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