Landformations
These landforms are made when two plate move towards each other at a convergent boundary(3).
What are Mountains, Volcanoes, and Trenches?
This provides shape evidence that the continents were once connected as the super continent Pangaea.
What is the puzzle shape of the continents?
Water that does not soak into the ground and can carry pollutants and other materials with it into lakes, rivers, streams, and the ocean.
What is runoff?
The system that is in charge of sending and receiving information in our bodies.
What is the nervous system?
Alfred Wegener is buried here.
What is Greenland?
These landforms are made when divergent plates move away from each other (2).
What are rifts and ridges?
This evidence showed that the Mesosaurus, a freshwater and land-dwelling dinosaur lived on both South America and Africa suggesting that they were once connected.
What is fossil evidence?
This major pollution comes from farming.
What is fertilizer?
This system responds to chemical signals in the body called hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
All systems working together to keep the body healthy and balanced.
What is homeostasis?
A fault, hanging wall, and footwall can all appear at this tectonic boundary.
What is a Transform Boundary?
The mountains on the eastern coast of South America and the western coast of Africa provide evidence that these two continents were once connected. The layers in these mountains follow what law?
What is the Law of Superposition, Stating that the oldest layers will be at the bottom and the youngest will be at the top in undisturbed layers of rock?
Besides farming, this is another concern for pollution that affects rain water and runoff, as well as groundwater.
What is industry or factories?
The system that produces the hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
What is the reproductive system?
Turning off the water while brushing your teeth, properly disposing of chemicals, taking shorter showers, cleaning up your pets waste in the yard.
What are things I can do to help keep water clean?
The zone where the denser/older plate moves under the younger/less dense plate and the crust begins to melt.
What is a subduction zone?
Evidence that these massive, cold objects once existed in places that are now at the equator is further evidence for continental drift.
What are glaciers?
A positive impact humans have made in the gulf that has brought many species back to the gulf. (Hint: it was made with an old ship).
What is an artificial reef?
The system in charge of structure, support, protection, and making red blood cells.
What is the skeletal system?
What is an aquifer?
This geologic and seismic even can occur at all three types of tectonics boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
The names of these two scientists, the first was proven right posthumously (after his death) by the other who discovered sea-floor spreading.
Who are Afred Wegener and Harry Hess?
This is these are biggest concerns with marine (salt water) life and pollution (2).
What is pollution that the animals think is food and pollution that they get caught in making them unable to move?
We are unable to move without this system.
What is the muscular system?
The volcano that erupted in 1980 in the U.S.
What is Mount St. Helen's