Benchmark 4C
The Physical Setting: Processes that Shape the Earth
Grades 6-8, page 73

The interior of the earth is hot. Heat flow and movement of material within the earth cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and create mountains and ocean basins. Gas and dust from large volcanoes can change the atmosphere.
 

NSES Content Standard D 
Earth and Space Science: Structure of the Earth system 
Grades 5-8, page 159 
The solid Earth is layered with a lithosphere; hot, convecting mantle; and dense, metallic core. 

NSES Content Standard D 
Earth and Space Science: Structure of the Earth system 
Grades 5-8, page 160 
Lithospheric plates on the scales of continents and oceans constantly move at rates of centimeters per year in response to movements in the mantle. Major geological events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building, result from these plate motions. 

NSES Content Standard F 
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Natural hazards 
Grades 5-8, page 168 
Internal and external processes of the Earth system cause natural hazards, events that change or destroy human and wildlife habitats, damage property, and harm or kill humans. Natural hazards include earthquakes, landslides, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, floods, storms, and even possible impacts of asteroids. 

NSES Content Standard D 
Earth and Space Science: Energy in the earth system 
Grades 9-12, page 189 
The outward transfer of earth's internal heat drives convection circulation in the mantle that propels the plates comprising earth's surface across the face of the globe.