Early Earth
What is meant by "Bombardment from Space"?
Meteors crashing into the Earth's surface to add minerals, materials, and heat.
Mountains are formed when these two plate types crash into each other....
Continental
What do you call molten rock underneath the Earth's surface?
Magma
Which boundary causes two plates to move away from each other?
Divergent Boundary
What do you call a group of lions?
Pride
What element mostly sank towards the core of the Earth to help create the inner and outer core?
Iron
What do you the area or zone where one plate slides underneath another?f
Subduction
What process would you need to make sediments for sedimentary rock?
Weathering and Erosion
What is the name of the supercontinent?
Pangaea
Which football team has won the most superbowls?
The New England Patriots
True or false: When the Earth was first formed, it was easily habitable by lifeforms
false
Which boundary causes earthquakes?
Transform Boundaries
Rocks change into other types of rocks _________ of time.
Slowly
What is running down the entire length of the Atlantic ocean?
Mid ocean ridge
Which movie was Anne Hathaway's first (thanks to Disney)?
The Princess Diaries
What two things have helped to form Earth's oceans/bodies of water?
Volcanoes (water vapor from the gas) and asteroids
What is the cause of the movements of the Earth's crust?
Convection Currents
What do you call rocks that are formed inside the Earth's crust?
Intrusive Igneous Rock
What temperature range do rocks melt?
600-1300 degrees C
Many know that Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain, but what is the second tallest mountain?
K2
What is the word that means: to get larger by adding small pieces over time (just like how the planets were formed).
Accretion
Which of these is not a piece of evidence that supports plate tectonics?
a. Fossils
b. The shape of the continents
c. Similarities in geographical features and events
d. The height of Mt. Everest
d. The height of Mt. Everest
What process do you need to change a rock into a metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
Subduction zones occur with ocean and continental plates...but what type of zones occur when two continental plates crash into each other?
Collision zones
Adjusting for inflation, what movie made the most money?
Gone with the Wind?