Anatomic Paper
This section of a scientific paper describes the procedure or steps used to conduct the experiment.
What is the Methods?
The process by which heat moves through liquids or gases and causes warm materials to rise and cool materials to sink.
What is convection?
He was the scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift and plate tectonics, suggesting that continents were once joined together in a supercontinent.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
This is the zone in space where conditions are just right for life to exist on a planet.
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
The word “tektonikós” comes from this culture and means____?
What is comes from Greek and means builder or to build?
This part of a scientific paper introduces the topic and gives background information to understand the study.
What is the Introduction?
These two factors primarily drive convection currents.
What are density and temperature?
This is a scientific explanation that is supported by evidence but can change over time, unlike a law, which is always true.
What is a theory?
The movement of tectonic plates is essential for life on Earth because it helps create new landforms, recycle nutrients, and create this type of habitat at the ocean floor.
What is a hydrothermal vent?
This layer of Earth is made up of solid rock and forms the Earth's outer shell.
What is the crust?
This section contains facts and data collected from the experiment or study. It tells you what happened.
What is the Results?
Very salty water is ________ than less salty, fresh water.
What is denser?
This was the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago, where all of Earth's land was connected.
What is Pangea?
If most exoplanets lack plate tectonics, it suggests these planets might be unable to support life because of a lack of this.
What is geothermal activity?
This layer is a hot, semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere, which allows tectonic plates to move.
What is the asthenosphere?
This section of the paper is a "spoiler alert": it tells you what happens in a quick summary.
What is the abstract?
Places where we can see convection happening.
What are fluids? These fluids include air in the atmosphere, water in the ocean, magma in the mantle, and the air in a convection oven.
Pieces of evidence that support the theory of plate tectonics.
What are matching fossils and rock formations found on different continents, earthquakes, convection under the crust, or matching tectonic plate puzzle pieces?
Why is tectonic activity essential for life?
Tectonic activity, such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, helps recycle Earth’s nutrients and sustain life by maintaining a balance in the atmosphere and oceans. It acts as the planet's thermometor.
At these plate boundaries, two plates move toward each other, often causing earthquakes and mountain building.
What is a convergent boundary?
I'm sick of words: these parts of scientific papers may include graphs, charts, and pictures.
What are figures?
You dye two flasks of water. The red one is heated and and blue one is cold. If we put them in a tub of room temperature water what will happen?
This is the scientific theory that describes the movement of Earth's lithosphere on the more fluid asthenosphere below it.
What is plate tectonics?
Describe the ecosystems found in hydrothermal vents.
In areas of seafloor spreading, hydrothermal vents form. Bacteria "eat" sulfur, tubeworms eat bacteria, crabs and shimp eat tube worms, and fish can be found there too.
Without plate tectonics, this type of life-supporting feature would be less likely to exist, possibly making Earth more lifeless.
At these plate boundaries, plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?