Plate Tectonics

Core

• Where two plates come together

• The middle layer of the Earth

• the dense metallic center of the Earth

Mantle

• The middle layer of the Earth

• A circular pattern of warm material rising and cool material sinking

• a theory about the Earth's surface and movement of continents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Asthenosphere

• The upper layer of the Earth's mantle, below the lithosphere

• The outermost layer of the Earth

• The most inner layer of the Earth's crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Crust

• the dense metallic center of the Earth

• The rocky outer layer of the Earth's surface

• The upper layer of the mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Lithosphere

• layer of solid, brittle rock that makes up the Earth’s surface, composed of the crust and the uppermost mantle

• a circular pattern of warm material rising and cool material sinking

• the location where two plates come together

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Convection Cell

• The dense metallic center of the Earth

• The location where two plates come together

• a circular pattern of warm material rising and cool material sinking

Meteorite

• fragment of a planetary body, such as moons, planets, asteroids, and comets, that strikes Earth

• fragment of a planetary body, such as the ocean, volcano, or islands.

• Fragments of old spaceships that re-entered the Earth's atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Plate Tectonics

• A deep hole in the seafloor where subduction takes place

• The upper layer of the Earth's Mantle, where the ocean lays

• theory that the Earth’s surface is divided into lithospheric plates that move about on Earth’s surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental Drift

• hypothesis developed that states that the continents move about on the surface of the Earth

• hypothesis developed that states that the Moon's gravity pushes on the surface of the Earth

• The rocky outer layer of the Earth's surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seafloor Spreading

• A location where two plates come together

• A circular pattern of warm material rising and cool material sinking

• process by which new seafloor forming at spreading ridges pushes lithospheric plates on the Earth’s surface, thus moving continents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3