8.9 A & B Vocabulary Review

A German geophysicist and meteorologist, who used evidence to propose the Theory of Continental Drift

• Alfred Wegner

• Henry Hess

• Alfred Angelo

• Mrs. Brown

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

A malleable semi liquid (plastic like) zone in the upper mantle where the plates of the lithosphere move; directly underneath the lithosphere

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Crust

• Inner cOre

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The less dense crust that is being created and destroyed ; (Less dense than oceanic crust and thicker)

• Oceanic Crust

• Mantle

• Continental Crust

• Sea floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Transfer of thermal occurs because of differences in temperature and density in a fluid motion within the asthenosphere (mantle)

(heating, rising, cooling, and sinking of magma)

• Convection Boundary

• Convection Current

• Converging Plate

• Water Cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding (coming together)

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Plate Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

The boundary between two colliding tectonic plates

• Tectonic Plates

• Convergent Plates

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

Wegener’s hypothesis that a super continent split apart and the pieces drifted to their present location

• Continental Drift Theory

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Fault

• Asthenosphere

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Boundary between 2 tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Plate Boundary

A sudden and sometimes violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or because of volcanic action

• Fault

• Evidence

• Earthquake

• Convection Current

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Available facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid, used to prove or disprove something

• Fault

• Fossil Records

• Plate Boundary

• Evidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4