Vocab
A sudden shaking of the Earth's surface.
What is an earthquake?
The type of land where the Mesosaurus fossils are found.
What is hard, solid rock?
Daily Double! Earth's outer layer (crust) is made of _______, ______ ______.
What is hard, solid rock?
To go against a claim.
What is refute?
Daily Double! The place where two plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
The two continents in which Mesosaurus fossils are found.
What are Africa and South America?
Earth's outer layer (crust) is divided into sections called ______.
What are plates?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world.
What is a claim?
Very large sections of hard, solid rock that makes up the Earth's outer layer (crust).
What is a plate?
Fossils are the traces or remains of ______ ______.
What are living things?
What are patterns?
Daily Double! Information about the natural world that is used to support or refute a claim.
Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation and water.
What is the Earth's Crust (or outer layer)?
Fossils are found almost exclusively in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
The plates of Earth's outer layer (crust) _____.
What is move?
The process of making clear how your evidence either supports or refutes a claim.
What is reasoning?
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a cross section?
Daily Double! The distance in kilometer between the locations where the Mesosaurus fossils are found.
What is 4,000 kilometers?
Not a KC: Plate motion causes ________.
What are earthquakes?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.
What is a model?