Vocabulary
One of the very large section's of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer.
What is a plate.
Earth's outer layer is made of _______, ________, ______?
What is hard, solid, rock.
Moving towards something?
What is a convergent.
What dinosaur fossils were found in both South America and Africa?
What is the Mesosaurus.
Which female music star (who was a cross over from country to pop) holds the record for most American Music Awards?
Who is Taylor Swift.
The place where two plates meet.
What is plate boundary.
Geologists look for this in landforms and geologic events in order to better understand the Earth.
What is a pattern.
What is divergent.
What does GPS stand for?
What is global positioning system.
What is the only continent without spiders?
What is Antarctica.
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a cross section.
Earth's plates move on top of a soft, solid layer of rock called a ....?
What is a mantle.
At __________ boundaries, rock rises from the mantle and hardens, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates.
What is a divergent plate boundary.
What was the name of the super continent that we did the puzzle activity on?
What is Gondwanaland.
What is the strongest bone in the human body?
What is a femur.
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Earth's plates travel at a rate too _______ to be experienced by humans.
What is slow.
At ___________ plate boundaries, one plate moves underneath the other plate and sinks into the mantle.
What is a convergent plate boundary.
What is the name of the scientist that came up with on the first theories that the continents were once connected?
Who is Alfred Wegener.
What is the fastest human sense?
It takes a ______ time for Earth's plates to travel great distances.
What is long.
The plates travel very fast so fast that you could feel it.
What is false.
What is the rate per year that the South American plate and the African plate are moving away from each other?
What is 3cm per year.
What is the most watched video on youtube? Hint has to do with an aquatic animal.
What is baby shark.