Plate Boundaries
Earth's crust is broken into moving pieces called...
What are tectonic plates?
Anything from nature that humans use is called...
This is formed in ancient swamps
What is coal?
Oil & gas began as dead ________ .
What are phytoplankton / algae / microorganisms?
True or False: every environment needs natural resources to work.
What is true?
When plates move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
This word describes a resource that we can run out of.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Two things that formed from tiny dead sea creatures
What are oil and gas?
For oil & gas to form, the conditions have to be ____ ____ .
What is just right?
One reason natural resources could be spread out unevenly in your arena.
What is plate tectonics OR continental drift?
Two plates sliding past each other
What is a transform boundary?
An underground pocket where oil collects is called...
What is an oil field
True or false: oil forms best underground in cold deserts
What is false?
One plate sliding under another one (which can bring oil to the surface)
What is subduction?
If 2 plates crash together in your arena, what environment could form?
What are mountains?
Two plates crashing into each other
What is a convergent boundary?
When one plate slides under another plate
What is subduction?
This East Coast mountain range used to be swampy, so now it has a lot of coal
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Coal is made from dead _____ that got buried, heated, and squished.
What are plants?
If your arena was a swamp 300 million years ago, what natural resource could it have a lot of?
What is coal?
When two plates crash together and push upward, this is created.
What are mountains?
The supercontinent described by Wegener.
What is Pangaea?
The reason we can find oil in deserts even though that's not where it forms
What is continental drift?
Coal started forming about ____ to ____ million years ago.
What is 300 to 400 million?
C-E-R stands for what 3 parts of a scientific explanation?
What are claim, evidence, and reasoning?