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What is a theory?
to notice or find, often with the help of a science tool.
What is detect?
a sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of rock underground
What is an earthquake?
information used for analysis and reason
What is data?
a crack in a body of rock that the rock can move along
What is a fault?
Extremely old
What is ancient?
the layer of solid rock that the rock can move along
What is a mantle?
an instrument used to detect and measure earthquakes and other ground vibrations
What is a seismograph?
a continuous mass of land
What is a continent?
an anomalously hot, stationary point below the lithosphere where melting of the mantle and crust generates volcanism at Earth's surface
What is a hot spot?
The supercontinent
What is pangea?
Geologists use this to determine which direction rocks move during an earthquake
What is seismic data?
Some things that are caused by plate tectonic movement.
What are volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain chains?
Used to measure the strength of an earthquake
What is a seismograph?
Earthquakes occur here.
What happens at mid-ocean ridges, trenches, high mountain chains?
Parallel strips of crust symmetrically alligned on both sides of a mid ocean ridge
How the ocean floor is made.?
This is how fast the plates move.
This is how plates move.
What are in different directions?
Volcanoes provide evidence of plate tectonics
What is speed and direction of plate movements?
Evidence that plate tectonics are constantly changing the earth.
What are rocks, landforms..etc.