Method
To examine in detail for a purpose.
What is to ANALYZE?
Where the plates meet.
What is PLATE BOUNDARY?
Thickest pieces of lithosphere
What are the CONTINENTS?
You can find these on Earth’s surface.
What is WATER, VEGETATION, and SOIL?
When a plate slides underneath another to get melted.
What is a SUBDUCTION?
Something we observe to be The same over and over again.
What is a PATTERN?
Plates move away from each other.
What is a DIVERGENT boundary?
Convergent boundaries create these.
Study of fossilized animals and plants.
What is PALEONTOLOGY?
Soft, solid rock, underneath Earth’s outer-layer.
What is MANTLE?
How often or fast something happens.
What is RATE?
Plates move toward each other.
What is a CONVERGENT boundary?
Divergent boundaries create these.
What are MID-OCEAN RIDGES?
All of these, drilled from all places in the world, contain hard, solid rock .
What are CORE SAMPLES?
A diagram of what the inside of something looks like.
What is a CROSS-SECTION?
Coined the term “Continental Drift”, but could not prove how it was happening.
Who is ALFRED WEGNER?
Plates slide past each other.
What is a TRANSFORM boundary?
These occur on the uplifted plate on a convergent boundary, or directly on a divergent boundary.
What are VOLCANOES?
This organization focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.
What is NOAA? (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Scientific name for Earth’s outer-layer or “crust”.
What is LITHOSPHERE?
States that younger rocks will be on top of older rocks.
What is THE LAW OF SUPERPOSITION?
This is the reason oceanic plates sink beneath continental plates.
What is that oceanic crust is MORE DENSE than continental crust?
When two continental plates collide, these are created, since the densities are the same.
What are MOUNTAINS?
These occur after plates move, and are evidence of plate tectonics that humans can feel.
What are EARTHQUAKES?
Naval officer that noticed magma coming up from a rift, and coined the term “Plate Tectonics”.
Who is HARRY HESS?