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Standard 6-ESS2-3.ESS2.B

6-ESS2-3.ESS2.B Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

Grade(s): 6

Subject(s): Science

Year: 2021

Plate Movements - Lateral | NASA Online

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At a lateral plate boundary, plates slide past each other. The San Andreas fault in California is an example of a transform plate boundary, where the Pacific Plate slides past the North American Plate...

Plate Movements - Convergent | NASA Online

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At a convergent plate boundary, lithospheric plates move toward each other. The west margin of the South American continent, where the oceanic Nazca Plate is pushed toward and beneath the continental...

Plate Movements - Divergent | NASA Online

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At a divergent plate boundary lithospheric plates move away from each other. As the two sides move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is...