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100
Earth's layer of hard, solid rock
What is the outer layer?
100
A sudden shaking of Earth's surface
What is an earthquake?
100
Name of the supercontinent
What is Pangea?
100
Where 2 plates meet
What is a plate boundary?
100
This ancient creature was believed to be one of the first reptiles to live in and around water.
What is the Mesosaurus?
100
True/False: The land floats on water
False
200
One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth' outer layer
What is a plate?
200
Layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
What is the mantle?
200
What would you refer to this as?
What is a Divergent Plate Boundary?
200
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world.
What is a claim?
200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What are South America and Africa?
200
This picture represents
What is a Convergent Plate Boundary.
300
Something we observe to be similar over and over again
What is a pattern?
300
Term for an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
What is a fossil?
300
What plate boundary has rock rising from the mantle and hardening, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates?
What is a divergent plate boundary?
300
Why do Scientists often study cross-sections of objects?
To better understand what the inside of something looks like.
300
Alfred Wegner found fossils of tropical plants on what continent?
What is Antarctica?
400
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when 2 plates meet
What is a trench?
400
An underwater mountain range formed when 2 plates move apart
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
400
What plate boundary has one plate moving underneath the other plate and sinking into the mantle?
What is a convergent plate boundary?
400
What would you conclude about the pattern of volcanoes according to this map?
Most volcanoes occur along plate boundaries.
400
What landform is found at a convergent plate boundary?
What is a Trench?
500
This type of plate boundary results in one plate moving underneath the other plate and sinking into the mantle.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
500
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a cross-section?
500
The instrument Bob Dziak and his team used to "listen to the Earth" below the ocean's surface
What is a hydrophone?
500
The rate at which the South American and African Plate are currently spreading apart per year? (Units are important)
What is 3.0 cm per year?
500
What kind of animal is pictured below?
What is the Mesosaurus?
500
What landform is found at a divergent plate boundary?
What is a Mid-ocean Ridge?
800
This tells you how fast or how often something happens.
What is a rate?
800
What fills in the space when plates move away from each other?
What is Magma/Lava?
800
What two things you will find at a plate boundary?
What are Earthquakes and Volcanoes?