Earth's History
A horizontally deposited layer of sediment.
What is strata?
The continents are part of this thin outer layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
The edges of Earth's tectonic plates.
What are plate boundaries?
Mount St. Helens is this type of volcano.
What is a stratovolcano?
Mr. Holland's favorite NFL team.
What is the Green Bay Packers?
Remains of once living organisms, often preserved in layers of sediment.
What is a fossil? OR What are fossils?
The dense, molten rock under Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
The Himalayan Mountains were formed at this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
Hawaiian Islands are this type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
Mrs. Jirasko's favorite type of stories.
What is mythology?
Fossilized prints of feet, tails, whole bodies, or plants.
What is a trace fossil?
The lithosphere is broken up into these moving irregular sections.
What are tectonic plates?
The San Andreas Fault zone occurs at this plate boundary.
A type of volcano that hasn't erupted in millions of years.
What is an extinct volcano?
The holiday occurring next Monday.
What is Veteran's Day?
In 1915, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed this explanation for the puzzle-like appearance of the continents.
What is Wegener's Hypothesis? OR What is continental drift?
This process occurs at the mid-Atlantic ridge, creating rift valleys and ridges.
What is sea-floor spreading?
New crust is created at this type of boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
The type of volcano that hasn't erupted in a few hundred years.
What is a dormant volcano?
The name of Mr. Laws' dog.
What is Murphy?
The two super-continents hypothesized by Alfred Wegener.
What is Pangaea and Gondwanaland?
The process in which organisms use energy from chemicals in hydro-thermal vents to make their own food.
What is chemosynthesis?
The scale used to measure intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
The Ring of Fire surrounds what tectonic plate?
What is the Pacific Plate?
The only infinite number.
What is pi?