Plate Tectonics
When two plates move away from eachother in two opposite directions
What is a Divergent boundary?
What is the ring of common seismic activity in the Pacific Ocean
What is The Ring of Fire
The amount of space taken up by an object, or how much matter makes something
What is mass?
The thickest layer of Earth
The Mantle
What is the 3rd biggest religion
Hinduism
When a plate sinks under another in a convergent boundary forming a trench due to being dense
What is Subduction?
An infamous volcano located in Pompeii
What is Mount Vesuivius?
The process when gas forms into liquid
What is Condensation?
What event formed the moon
Theia collision
Who died in Secret of the Yellow Death. A Medical sleuthing?
Dr. Lazear
The theory that the Earth constantly releases magma creating new sea floor
What is Seafloor spreading?
When stress builds up between tectonic plates and the crust suddenly moves
What causes earthquakes?
When a molecule gets heated it expands, for example, the Eiffel Tower is 12 inches higher in summer
What is expansion?
The first signs of life on Earth.
Stromatolites and Bacteria
How do Mammals often communicate?
Infrasound
The supercontinent 300 million years ago that would form today's continents
What is Pangaea?
Stableizing slopes, strengthening buildings and making water flow channels.
What is Mitigation?
After putting an object into a liquid, how much liquid that is displaced determines it's ____
What is Mass?
A magnetic field around Earth connected by its poles. When solar storms occur this protects Earth taking radiation and making the Aurora Borealis
What is the Magnetosphere?
How many individual cubby bins are in the classroom?
12
A man that theorized the continents were all one supercontinent that split due to identical fossils being found on different continents and continents looking like they fit together like a big puzzle
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Several events that would occur before the final event
What are precursor events?
The formula is Movement + Friction
What is Heat?
How was water theorized to come to Earth?
From Meteorites carrying ice
How many tectonic plates are there?
15