Earth's Plates and Changing Surface

What is formed at convergent, continental-continental plates?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Volcanic mountains (volcanic arc)

• Mountains

• Rift Valley

A process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through rising magma slowing moving away from the ridge where two ocean plates diverge

• ocean trench

• sea floor spreading

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The theory that the outer rigid layer of the earth (the lithosphere) is divided into a couple of dozen "plates" that move around across the earth's surface

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• gravity

• sea floor spreading

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When two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• continental boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where two tectonic plates move toward each other

• continental boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

Where two tectonic plates slide past each other resulting in earthquakes.

• continental boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A supercontinent made up of all land masses that existed 300 million years ago

• Chicago

• Pangaea

• Australia

• Galapagos

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• aging

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Most earthquakes... 

• occur over land
• occur at plate boundaries
• occur over water
• occur in Nebraska

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What does bio- mean?

• with

• life

• two

• earth