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?
The most intense earthquakes occur at this plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
Mr B has this animal for a pet
what is a cat
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?
2 landforms found at a convergent plate boundary
What are volcanos and trench?
Mr B is undefeated at this sport
What is boxing
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?
Rock rises from the mantle and hardens, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates
What is a divergent plate boundary?
Mr B has this many children
what is 2
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 volcanoes and mountain ranges.
what are landforms
When 2 plates continental plates converge they can form this.
what is a mountain or mountain range.
Mr B rides his bike this far to get to Howe
What is 10 miles
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?
something we observe to be similar over and over again
what is a pattern
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge this one goes underneath
What is the oceanic plate?
This animated movie featuring a wooly mammoth, saber tooth tiger and an acorn chasing rodent has plate motion in it
what is Ice Age Continental Drift