Parts of the Earth.....
The outermost, thinnest, least dense layer of the Earth, which is made up of solid rock and sediment.
Crust
This is composed of everything in existence, including planets, solar systems, and galaxies.
The Universe
The scientific theory that explains the movements of the continents.
Plate Tectonics
The remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago.
A fossil
A sudden, violent shaking of the ground that results from the movements within the Earth's crust.
Earthquake
The series of processes by which rocks are transformed from one type to another and continually renewed.
Rock Cycle
A group of celestial bodies that include a central star and all the objects held in order around it.
solar system
Cracks on the Earth's crust where plates move past one another.
Fault Lines
The scientific theory that explains how species change over time.
Theory of evolution
A hot liquid made of melted minerals and compounds commonly found in rocks.
Magma
The hot middle, thickest layer of the Earth.
Mantle
The theory proposing that the universe began as an extremely hot and dense body of matter that expanded rapidly afterward to form the known universe.
The big band theory
A plate boundary in which plates crash into each other. If continental plates do this they create mountains. If oceanic plates and continental plates do this it can create sub duction zones, trenches, and volcanic arc.
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Older fossils are found ________ newer ones in sedimentary rocks.
under or beneath
Identify the landform created when two tectonic plates collide, pushing the Earth's crust upward.
Mountain
The solid, inner portion of the Earth's core; composed of iron and nickel.
Inner Core
A tectonic plate boundary where plates slide by each other, building pressure, that could result into fault lines and earthquakes.
Transform boundaries
The permanent loss of a species.
Extinction
The process that occurs at convergent plate boundaries at which an oceanic plate is melted as it is sinking back into the mantle
Subduction
The liquid portion of the Earth's core; its flow produces the Earth's magnetic field.
Outer Core
The fundamental force of attraction that all objects with mass exert on each other.
Gravity
Divergent boundaries
The presence of homologous structures in two distinct species suggests that the species share a _________.
Common ancestor
An opening on the surface of the Earth from which molten rock, gases, and debris from the mantle are ejected.
Volcano