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Wegener
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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
One type of evidence Wegner considered as he developed his ideas about plate motion.
What are the shapes of the continents (fitting together similar to a puzzle), identical landforms on other continents, similar fossils on other continents.
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
Any of the many processes in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth
What is volcanic activity?
300
Term for an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
What is a fossil?
300
Rock rises from the mantle and hardens, 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
Wegener's hypothesis was rejected because he could not prove this
What is: How do the plates move?
400
When one plate moves underneath the other plate and sinks 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
When did the mesosaurus go extinct according to the article we read?
What is approximately 260 million years ago?
800
This tells you how fast or how often something happens.
What is a rate?
800
This is an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.
What is a model or simulation?
800
The work of many Scientists, including Alfred Wegener, led to this theory _________.
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
800
A specific place we learned about with a convergent plate boundary.
What is The Mariana Trench?
800
What are you getting Mr. Miller for his birthday tomorrow? Also, how old will he be?
What is 31?
800
What geologic events are evidence that plates are moving?
What are Earthquakes and Volcanoes?