The Puzzle of the Continents Vocabulary

continental drift

• a theory suggesting that continents move

• a theory that the continents stay in the same place forever

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

plate tectonics

• the plates that stay in place forever

• a theory that explains changes in Earth's crust by internal forces

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

plates

• rigid blocks of Earth's crust and upper mantle

• ceramic utensil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

lithosphere

• area of rigid blocks of Earth's crust and upper mantle

• a planet in the atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

asthenosphere

• zone of weak, plastic-like material in the mantle

• a facial uplift of the atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

earthquakes and volcanoes

• caused by moving plates

• happens all the time in Alabama

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

transform faults

• happens at the center of the world

• boundaries at which plates move past one another horizontally

subduction zone

• region where a plate descends

• region where the plates transcend into the atmosphere

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

convergent boundary

• boundaries where the plates remain stationary

• boundaries between 2 colliding plates

deep focus earthquakes

• produced as a plate moves deeper into the mantle

• earthquakes that happen on the top of Earth's crust

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1