Plates
Rocks
Think Like a Scientist
Earth's Layers
Mixed Picks
100
A transformation boundary is most likely to create this geological formation.
What are earthquakes?
100
Type of rock that is created by smaller rocks and particles compacting and cementing together.
What is sedimentary?
100
Use the dichotomous key to find the name of bird W.
What is a Geospiza?
100
The least dense layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
100
This feature found in rocks helps give scientists a glimpse into the past.
What are fossils?
200
The boundary that forms when two plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
200
Type of rock created increased heat and/or pressure.
What is metamorphic?
200
Something humans can do to prevent erosion.
What is plant trees?
200
As you go towards the center of Earth, the temperature does this.
What is increases?
200
Fossils found below other fossils (like in D shown) mean this.
What is:they are older.?
300
Volcanoes and Mid-Ocean Ridges usually form at this boundary.
What is divergent?
300
This changes an igneous rock into a sediment.
What are weathering and erosion.?
300
3 ways humans have impacted Earth's surface.
What are removing trees, farming, creating nature preserves, building highways, creating dams.?
300
The largest layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
300
Fossil evidence of marine organisms found on the Coastal Plain of Virginia tell us this about the area's past.
What is: It was once underwater?
400
The boundary that forms when two plates slide against each other.
What is transform?
400
When magma and lava cool and crystalize it turns into this rock.
What igneous?
400
The type of data that is observed, not measured.
What is qualitative?
400
The two layers of Earth that contain nickel and iron.
What are the inner and outer core?
400
Makes the large plates on the surface of Earth move.
What is heat (thermal energy)?
500
Heat from inside earth causes these to form on the surface.
What are: Different landforms such as volcanoes, mountains, trenches, earthquakes?
500
The 3 ways rocks move/change over time.
What are weathering, erosion, and deposition.
500
A scientist's prediction, or educated guess, about the outcome of an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
500
The outer two layers of earth are made mostly of this.
What is rocky material?
500
This causes the inner core to be a solid, rather than a liquid like the outer core.
What is extreme pressure?
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