Plate Motion

Plate Boundaries

100

What type of plate boundary is where two plates are moving away from each other?

Divergent

200

What type of plate boundary is where two plates are moving into each other?

Convergent

300

What type of plate boundary is where two plates are sliding past each other?

Transform

400

What is the location called where one plate goes underneath another plate? 

Subduction Zone

500

What comes between two divergent plates and what does it form? 

Magma/Soft Rock and forms new crust/sea floor/land

Layers of the Earth

100

You take an apple and cut it in half and then draw what you see. Your drawing includes the skin of the apple and the inside of the apple. What is your drawing an example of? 

Cross- Section

200

Underneath sand, water, soil, and snow is what? 

The crust (hard, rocky layer)

300

What are the 4 layers of the earth? 

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core

400

The lithosphere is on top of what layer of the earth? 

The asthenosphere

500

Why is the inner core a solid? 

Due to the pressure of the other layers

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

100

What causes an earthquake?

The movement of two tectonic plates.

200

What type of material is used to build the most earthquake-resistant building? 

Steel

300

List three of the five places that you read about last Thursday, where there are a lot of earthquakes.

Chile

Iceland

Haiti

Turkey/Syria

Indonesia

400

What is inertia?

An object at rest stays at rest until another force acts on it. 

Or

An object in motion stays in motion until another force acts on it.

500

What type of tectonic plate is the most dense? 

Oceanic Plate

Continental Drift

100

What is the supercontinent that existed 300 million years ago called? 

Pangea

200

How much to continents move in a year?

1 or 2 cm 

The speed of your finger nails

300

What type of boundary is pushing South America away from Africa

Divergent Boundary

400

List 3 different pieces of evidence that prove continental drift

Fossils

Rock Formation

Glaciers

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Matching Coastlines

500

Who came up with the theory of continental drift? 

Alfred Wegener

Past Units

100

What number is the science classroom? 

307

200

What two special things are happening next week? 

CAPE Testing and Teacher Appreciation Week

300

How many students are in all of the 7th grade at ITDS? 

45

400

What is the name of the principal who started last year? 

Dr. Inman

500

Including today and half days, how many days of school are left?

33