Plate Tectonics

Where 2 plates move TOWARD each other forming volcanoes and mountains

• Transform boundaries
• Convergent boundaries
• Subduction zones
• Divergent boundaries

Where 2 plates move AWAY from each other forming rift valleys and sea floor spreading

• Transform boundary
• Convergent boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Plate boundary zone

Where 2 plates SLIDE past each other forming earthquake faults

• Subduction zones
• Divergent boundaries
• Transform boundaries
• Convergent boundaries

Theory that the Earth is made up of GIANT MOVING ROCKS

• Plate Tectonics
• Geological Cycle
• Rock Cycle
• Drifting

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

large slabs of rock found in the Earth's crust that are CONSTANTLY MOVING

• Continental shelves
• Oceanic ridges
• Tectonic plates
• Sedimentary layers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When 1 tectonic plate SINKS below another

• Convergence
• Divergence
• Transform fault
• Subduction

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

information about the occurrence and evolution of past living organisms, and the order in which they lived

• fossil record
• evolutionary theory
• biological classification
• geological timeline

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

evidence of past living organisms

• Fossils
• Meteorites
• DNA
• Amber

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What boundary creates mountains?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform
• fast

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name the boundary.

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2