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Vocabulary
Mixed UP
What do you know?
x2 Open Ended
100
Remains or traces of past life found in the crust
What is fossils
100
Supercontinent
What is Pangea
100
Process of moving sediment from one place to another
What is erosion
100
What does it mean to say "The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider, pushing Europe and North America apart?"
What is the North American and European plates are moving away from each other
100
How do fossil help scientists learn about plants and animals of the past?
What is fossils are records of organisms that died long ago and the Earth may no longer have these types of organisms left
200
Theory of how continents move over Earth's surface?
What is Continental Drift
200
Opening in the crust through which lava flows
What is volcano
200
process of dropping sediment in a new location
What is deposition
200
What does it mean to say Earth's plates FLOAT?
What is the plates float on soft rock of the lower mantle which has currents like water
200
Would you expect earthquakes to occur along the ring of fire? why or why not
yes.. yes... yes.. located on plate boundaries
300
Molten rock from the mantle
What is magma
300
Rigid block of crust and upper-mantle rock
What is plate
300
Outer, thin layer of earth
What is crust
300
If the center of the earth is the hottest... Why is it solid?
What is because the great pressure at the center of the Earth
300
What would the surface of the Earth eventually look like if Earth's surface stopped moving.. WHY?
No new mountains, rounded and flat because of weathering and erosion
400
Physical feature on Earth's surface
What is landform
400
downhill shifting of rock and soil because of gravty
What is mass movement
400
center and hottest layer of the earth
What is core
400
Why would footprints on the moon last for hundreds of years?
What is no wind or water to erode the footprints
400
How is it possible that rock from some of the higher mountains has fossils?
What is MISS Sica :)
500
Place where pieces of the crust move
What is fault
500
process in which soil, sand and sediment are formed
What is weathering
500
middle layer of earth
What is mantle
500
Most mountains are formed by two plates colliding and land moving upward.. name a famous mountain range that was formed this way?
What is .... answers will vary
500
How does water weather rocks?
1. acid rain dissolves rock 2. water tumbles rocks breaking them into pieces 3. water freezes and expands breaking rocks into pieces
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