Mariana Trench and Pangaea
Pangaea was not a continent. It was a...
What is a supercontinent?
True or False: Plate tectonics created Mariana Trench.
What is true?
Igneous rocks form from this.
What is lava or magma?
Name one thing a comet is made of.
What are ice, rocks, and dust?
This US state formed completely from volcanoes.
What is Hawaii?
This type of vehicle is the only way to get down in the Mariana Trench.
What is a submarine?
This is what tectonic plates float on top of.
What is magma?
This type of rock might look chunky, like a lot of different rocks squashed into one.
What are sedimentary rocks?
A meteor and a meteorite are hurtling towards Earth. This one will hit the ground.
What is a meteorite?
The volcano under Yellowstone National Park is called a...
What is supervolcano?
This is one source of light in the Mariana Trench.
What is bioluminescence (living things)?
Valleys form along this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This type of rock can form from asteroids.
What are metamorphic rocks?
I am made of ice and dust and I come from the Kuiper Belt. I am a...
What is a comet?
This is a giant tidal wave that occurs because of earthquakes.
What is a tsunami?
Name 2 of the 3 pieces of evidence we have that Pangaea was real.
What are the plates fitting like puzzle pieces, fossils found across oceans, and climate evidence like coal in Antarctica?
Volcanoes form along this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
True or False: a rock in the rock cycle could NOT go from igneous rock to igneous rock.
What is false?
True or False: asteroids in the asteroid belt are close together.
What is true?
This type of scientist studies volcanoes.
What is a volcanologist?
Name the other supercontinent we learned the name of that formed before Pangaea.
What is Rodinia?
Another word for this type of plate boundary is a "fault line".
What are transform boundaries?
I am trying to make metamorphic rocks. I dropped a big weight on a rock. A metamorphic rock would not form because I was missing this.
What is heat?
This is why comets do not hit Earth's surface.
What is they melt in the atmosphere?
This was the title of Mr. Boivin's favorite science documentary, which had the end of the dinosaurs in it.
What is Walking With Dinosaurs?