Structure of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Rocks
Mixture
100
the result of the process
Gunner is fat
100
theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
What is plate tectonics?
100
Trench
What is a ditch?
100
the original rock from which something else was formed.
What is parent rock?
100
the loose weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow.
What is soil?
200
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations
What is data?
200
The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
What is continental drift?
200
The point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
What is epicenter?
200
a solid layer of rock beneath the soil.
What is bedrock?
200
A specific layer of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land.
What is soil horizons?
300
A continuous process used to collect observations, form and test a hypothesis, make predictions, and identify patterns in the physical world.
What is scientific method?
300
The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
What is Pangea?
300
A scale that rates seismic waves as measured by a particular type of mechanical seismograph.
What is Richter Scale?
300
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is sedimentary?
300
Surrounding and everything that affect an organism during its lifetime
What is environment?
400
The variable that is changed in a scientific experiment.
What is independent variable?
400
The place where two plates come together by moving toward each other.
What is convergent?
400
Processes or forces that create new landforms.
What are Constructive forces?
400
A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface
What is igneous?
400
the rigid outer layer of the Earth comprising the earth's crust and the solid part of the mantle above the asthenosphere.
What is lithosphere?
500
Strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement.
Ding-dong
500
A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
What is Divergent?
500
The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
What is subduction?
500
The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight.
What is compaction?
500
the liquid part of the Earth that is composed of iron and nickel
What is Outer Core?
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