plate tectonics

movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking

• Pangea

• fossil

• Seismologist

• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The name given to the super continent from the well-supported theory that all the continents used to be connected as one

• uplift

• Pangea

• seismologist

• convection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A boundary of two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed

• intrusion

• relative dating

• transform boundary

• seismologist

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A scientist who studies Earth and events that have changed and shaped Earth over time

• fossil

• pangea

• uplift

• geologist

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

When molten rock from inside the Earth moves through cracks in the rock layers and sometimes breaks through the surface.

• intrusion

• geologist

• convection

• absolute dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A scientist who studies earthquakes

• transform boundary

• convection

• absolute dating

• seismologist

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The age of something based on its placement

• relative dating

• intrusion

• fossil

• uplift

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

evidence of past life that have preserved in rocks

• intrusion

• uplift

• pangea

• fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The exact age of something

• geologist

• absolute dating

• fossil

• pangea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed.

• relative dating

• uplift

• fossil

• pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2