Earth Science Vocabulary

A location where two tectonic plates interact and they can be divergent, convergent or transform.

• Plate Boundary

• Lithosphere

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Continental Drift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form the continents

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Subduction

• Continental Drift

• Plate Boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A naturally formed, inorganic solid with a crystalline structure

• Rock Cycle

• Metamorphic

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Mineral

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geologic processes

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Rock Cycle

• Convection

• Weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The natural process by which atmospheric and environmental agents, such as wind, rain, and temperature change disintegrate, and decompose rocks.

• Erosion

• Plate Boundary

• Lithosphere

• Weathering

• Asthenosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rick

• Geological Time

• Rock Cycle

• Igneous Rock

The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.

• Continental Drift

• Igneous Rock

• Lithosphere

• Erosion

• Asthenosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The standard method used to divide Earth’s long natural history into manageable parts - eons, eras, periods, and epochs

• Epochs and Erosion

• Geological Time

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies

• Erosion

• Granite Rock

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Rock Cycle

Weathering occurs when rock

• get wet in the rain or snow

• is worn away or broken down into smaller and smaller pieces.

• melts

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2