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6th Grade Earth's Layers and Plate Tectonics Worksheets

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is broken into huge moving plates. These Earth's layers and plate tectonics pages hold 3 6th grade worksheets, each with an answer key. Layers of the Earth has students label the crust, mantle and core and fill in a data table. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift uses a fossil map to weigh Alfred Wegener's evidence, and Types of Plate Boundaries covers divergent, convergent and transform boundaries. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift carries MS-ESS2-3.

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At a divergent boundary two plates move apart, at a convergent boundary two plates push together, and at a transform boundary two plates slide past each other. Students classify real places such as the Andes Mountains and the San Andreas Fault.

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