Earth's Systems

The name of the supercontinent that early mapmakers suspected that the continents were all once connected.

• Atlantis

• Pangea

The middle section of the earth that make up ⅔ of the earth’s surface

• Mantle

• Crust

The name of the forces from deep inside the planet that drag apart or pull together plates as the hot mantle rises and cools as exists on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

• Convection Currents

• Compression Currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of activity is greatest along plate borders: convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries?

• Seismic

• Spherical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The name for the top most layer of the Earth’s Lithosphere is:

• Crust

• Mantle

The name for the boundaries where there's a gap in the lithosphere where magma, molten rock from the mantle, is constantly pushing apart and up along the boundaries

• DIvergent

• Convergent

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The name for the boundaries where two continental plates push together causing them to buckle and warp while the land pushes up into jagged peaks

• Divergent

• Convergent

This drives the rock cycle, the constant process of transformation and renewal of the earth's crust:

• Tectonic Plates

• Lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The name for the boundaries that slide past each other

• Tectonic

• Transform

The earth has three basic layers: the core, the mantle, and the crust.

• True

• False