Topic 5 Vocabulary

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• Hypothesis

• An idea that can be tested by experimentation or investigation

• Theory

• An explanation for why a phenomenon occurs

• Law

• Description of a repeated pattern observed in nature, without an explanation for the pattern.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

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• Superposition

• The idea that the continents were once fused together but slowly drifted apart over time.

• Tectonic Plates

• the condition of undisturbed sedimentary rock in which the oldest layer is at the bottom and the youngest layer is at the top.

• Continental Drift

• One giant continent into which most of all of the continents were assembled long ago.

• Supercontinent

• More than a dozen distinct plates that make up Earth's Surface and slowly move in different directions

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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• Transform Boundary

• Boundary where two tectonic plates move together, or converge

• Convection Current

• Boundary where tectonic plates slide past each other in opposite directions

• Convergent Boundary

• Boundary where two tectonic plates move away, or diverge, from one another

• Divergent Boundary

• A type of thermal energy transfer in which differences in temperature and density of fluids make them rise and fall

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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• Fault

• A break in the rock of Earth's crust or mantle

• Subduction

• The area under ocean water

• Ocean Basin

• Process in which a dense plate sinks under a less dense plate and melts in Earth's mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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• Earthquake

• vibrations that travel through Earth carrying energy

• Richter Scale

• shaking and trembling that result from tectonic plate movement

• Siesmic Waves

• a rating of an earthquake’s magnitude, on a scale from 0-9, based on the size if its seismic waves

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

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• magma

• molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from Earth’s mantle

• volcano

• area of the mantle where hot rock rises upward

• hot spot

• structure that forms when magma rises into Earth’s crust but is trapped and can’t break through to the surface, causing pressure to build over time ad finally erupt

• lava

• magma that has reached Earth’s surface

• supervolcano

• a structure that forms in Earth’s crust when molten material reaches Earth’s surface

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2