Vocabulary
Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
What is the outer layer or crust?
Earth's outer layer is divided into sections called ____________.
What are plates?
Two plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
This battle was a turning point for the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.
What is Battle of Saratoga.
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a cross section?
The plates of Earth's outer layer __________________.
What is move?
Two plates move toward each other.
What is convergent?
What is the authors purpose when writing a piece of literature?
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain.
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Earth's plates move on top of a soft, solid layer called the __________________.
What is the mantle?
The type of boundary that lies between South America and Africa.
What is divergent boundary?
Solve the equation for x.
7x-2=33
What is x=5
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
What is a trench?
If you removed all the vegetation, soil, and water from the surface of the earth this would be left.
What is hard, solid rock?
Mid-ocean ridge, trench, and volcano.
What is landforms are at plate boundaries?
This group of pioneers took a shortcut to reach California faster, but the shortcut led to tragedy.
What is the Donner Party.
An extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago.
What is Mesosaurus?
At divergent plate boundaries, rock rises from the mantle and _______, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates.
What is hardens?
The type of current that is responsible for plate motion.
What is convection?
Solve the equation for x.
-2(x-10)= -8
What is x=14