Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Miscellaneous 1
Miscellaneous 2
Test Questions
100
Plates that move apart in different directions.
Divergent Plate Boundary
100
Plates that move towards the same direction.
Convergent Plate Boundary
100
What is the Earth's outer layer made out of?
Hard, Solid Rock
100
What is the formula for rate?
Distance/ Time
100
Scientists often study cross sections to better understand what the inside of something looks like. If we took a cross section of an apple by cutting it vertically, what would the cross section look like?
Diagram A
200
A sudden shaking of the Earth's surface
Earthquake
200
Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints or leaf prints.
Fossils
200
Earth's plates moves on a soft, solid layer called ____.
Mantle
200
What is another name for "supercontinent"?
Pangea
200
If we went back 200 million years, where would the continents in this picture be?
a. the continents would be in the same place
b. the continents would be 2 inches closer
c. the continents would make one large supercontinent
d. the continents would be further away
C
300
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
Mid-Ocean Ridge
300
Something that we observe to be similar over and over again.
Pattern
300
TRUE OR FALSE.
Earthquakes are found on convergent and divergent plate boundaries.
TRUE.
300
Other than the continents matching like puzzle pieces, what is another piece of evidence to support that the continents were together?
1.Matching fossils
2. Matching landscapes
300
Which statement best describes Earth’s outer layer underneath the surface in the image?
a. Underneath the soil, Earth’s outer layer is made of water.
b. Underneath both the soil and the ocean, Earth’s outer layer is made of sand and water.
c. Underneath the soil, Earth’s outer layer is made of hard, solid rock. Underneath the ocean, Earth’s outer layer is made of sand.
d. Underneath both the soil and the ocean, Earth’s outer layer is made of hard, solid rock.
D
400
Where two plates meet.
plate boundary
400
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together.
Trench
400
An extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago, found on the South American and African plate.
Mesosaurus
400
What doe GPS stand for?
Global Positioning System
400
Plates moved 1000 km in 50 million years. Calculate the rate. Include units.
20 km/million years
500
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
cross section
500
The process in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of the Earth, including processes such as eruptions and lava flow.
Volcanic Activity
500
What is the deepest part of the ocean called?
Challenger deep, part of the Mariana Trench
500
The scientists who first presented the idea that the continents were once connected.
Alfred Wegener
500
TRUE or FALSE.
At convergent plate boundaries, new plates from underneath fills in the gap that was created by plates moving away from each other.
FALSE