Plate Tectonics Drifting continents

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

• fossil

• continental drift

• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continent?

• Pangaea

• sea floor spreading

• mid ocean trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

• shell

• mummy

• fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The movement of fluid caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another

• Deep-ocean trench

• Convection currents

• Sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Form long chains of mountains that rise up from the ocean floor

• Deep-ocean trench

• Sea-floor spreading

• Mid-ocean ridge

A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Deep-ocean trench

• Sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.

• Mid-Ocean ridge

• Deep-ocean trench

• Sea-floor spreading

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

• Convection

• Subduction

• Deduction

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart

• Big Valley

• Gift Valley

• Rift Valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3