Generation Genius Plate Tectonics

a tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates move away from each other, and new crust is created between them

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it

• mountain chain

• rift

• subduction zone

• hot spot

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle

• buoyancy

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• Alfred Wegener

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite, is less dense than oceanic crust, and is 20-50 km thick

• mantle

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere

Thinner, more dense, younger crust, primarily basaltic, making ocean floor

• mantle

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

• asthenosphere

The process that creates new seafloor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridges

• stressing

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• shearing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

• stressing

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• shearing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a valley in the ocean created when one lithospheric plate subducts under another

• deep ocean trench

• rift valley

• oceanic ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3