Vocab
Large areas of salty water
Oceans
Earths hot center
Core
Shaking of Earth
Earthquake
Sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing
Senses
Very large areas of land
Continents
The outside shell of Earth
Crust
When lava spills onto Earths surface
Volcano
An idea you can test that explains what you observe
Hypothesis
Large, thick pieces of crust that move
Plates
Earths thick middle layer
Mantle
Plates collide
Mountain
A way of testing your hypothesis
Experiment
Melted rock inside Earth
Magma
Where we live
Crust
Plates separate
Volcano
Parts of an experiment that can change
Variables
Melted rock on the surface of Earth
Lava
Where magma can be found
Mantle
Plates rub past each other
Earthquake
Parts of an experiment that stay the same
Controls