1st Quarter Review
Plants that do not have veins are called
What is nonvascular plants?
This theory proposed by Alfred Wegener states that the continents broke apart and traveled in time to their present day locations.
What is Continental Drift?
Just below the ridges of the sea floor, there is hot, melted rock called what ?
What is magma?
This molten rock is above ground.
What is lava?
All reptiles are _______________, this means that they cannot automatically keep its body temperature steady.
What is cold-blooded?
This model explains how new crust forms at ocean ridges.
What is sea-floor spreading?
The vibrations sent out from the focus during an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
The place where earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely to occur.
What is plate boundary?
Mammal mothers make milk in organs called ______________.
What is mammary glands?
When two plates collide, a denser ocean plate may slide under another plate, what is this called?
What is subduction?
The tool used to measure seismic waves.
What is seismograph or seismometer?
The cause of volcanoes that created the Hawaiian Islands.
What is hot spot?
______________ is the science and art of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.
What is agriculture?
The idea that Earth's crust is broken into pieces or plates.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Places where plates are colliding are called what ?
What is convergent boundaries?
The wide variety of life on Earth is called what?
What is bio-diversity?
The Earth has 4 layers, what are they?
What is mantle, crust, inner core, and outer core?
The point on the ground where an earthquake is first detected.
What is the epicenter?