MS ESS 2 3

When tectonic plates collide and one plate sinks beneath another plate.

• Transform Boundary

• Subduction

• Lithosphere

• Divergent Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

layer at the center of the Earth made of Solid Iron and nickel

• mantle

• inner core

• crust

• outer core

layer of hot, molten lava & iron and nickel

• mantle

• inner core

• outer core

what is the mantle

• layer that surrounds Earth. Made of continental and oceanic rock.

• thickest layer made of hot rock

• Underwater mountain chain

• is energy transfer by the movement of a material.

layer that surrounds Earth. Made of continental and oceanic rock

• Mantle

• Crust

Underwater mountain chain

• Convection

• Mid-ocean ridge

energy transfer by the movement of a material.

• Tectonic Plates

• Mantle

• Convection

The supercontinent that included all land masses on earth

• Asthenosphere

• Convection

• Convection currents

• Pangaea

A layer of hotter, softer rock in the upper mantle.

• Pangaea

• Convergent Boundary

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

layer of the Earth is divided into huge pieces called tectonic plates.

• Lithosphere

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3