Fossils
Weathering/Erosion
Earthquakes
Landforms
Plate Tectonics
100
What is a fossil?
evidence of prehistoric life preserved in a rock
100
What is erosion?
moving sediment
100
What is an earthquake?
shaking of the ground
100
What is a volcano?
an opening in the earth's surface through which fire, lava, and hot gases erupt
100
What are tectonic plates?
big chunks of the Earth's crust that are moving
200
True or False. Fossils take a long time, even millions of years, to form.
True
200
What is weathering?
the breaking down or rock into smaller pieces
200
What causes earthquakes?
shifts in parts of the earth's crust, movement of tectonic plates
200
What two landforms can occur when two tectonic plates collide?
Volcanoes and mountains
200
Where are tectonic plates located?
Earth's crust/upper mantle, at the edge of continents
300
Which layer is older?
Layer A
300
What is it called when soil and rocks are dropped or dumped by moving water, ice, or wind?
Deposition
300
What do we do when there is an earthquake drill?
Drop, cover, and hold on
300
Which type of landform is created when two continental (land) plates collide?
Mountain
300
What is a drawing or object that represents a real event, object or process?
Hint: The graham crackers and icing activity was an example.
a model
400
Which layers used to be a body of water?
Layers A and B
400
Name the 4 causes of erosion.
water, wind, ice, gravity
400
Why do we not have strong Earthquakes where we live?
We do not live on plate boundaries.
400
Where are most volcanoes located?
at the edge of continents
400
Think back to the graham cracker and icing activity. How did you move the graham crackers (or tectonic plates) to create a trench?
Moved away from each other
500
Which statement is not true?
Fossils can tell about living things in the past.
Fossils can show what color fur an animal had.
Fossils can show where an animal lived in the past.
Fossils found on the top layers are the youngest.Fossils can show what color fur an animal had.
500
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering is the breaking down of rock into sediment, and erosion is movement of sediment.
500
What is Pangea?
super continent the existed before tectonic plates split them
500
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is molten rock below the Earth's surface
Lava is molten rock above the Earth's surface
500
What is the difference between convergent boundaries and divergent boundaries?
Convergent boundaries are where tectonic plates collide with each other.
Divergent boundaries are where tectonic plates move away from each other.