Vocab
Moving apart in different directions
What is divergent?
Earth's plates travel at a rate too __________ to be experienced by humans.
What is slow?
Moving toward the same place
What is convergent?
an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
What is Mesosaurus?
What is a plate?
Geologist look for __________ in landforms and in geologic events in order to better understand earth.
What is patterns?
Something we observe to be similar over and over again
What is a pattern?
how often or fast something happens
What is rate?
The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
What is the mantle?
Earth's outer layer is divided into sections called _________.
What are plates?
a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
What is a landform?
In Earth’s ancient past, the continents were connected into supercontinents, including ____________.
What is Gondwanaland?
What is Volcanic Activity?
what is divergent;mantle?
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
________ technology is used to accurately measure the small distances that plates move
What is GPS?
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
What is a trench?
___________ is the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
What is rifting?
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
The edges of the ___________ and landforms match, as if they had once fit together like puzzle pieces
What are continents?