Vocabulary
The definition of the word "analyze" in a scientific context.
What is "to examine in detail for a purpose?"
The type of plate boundary where plates move apart from each other.
What is divergent?
The layer that Earth's plates are located on.
What is the outer layer?
A process in which lava, ash, or volcanic gasses are pushed into the outer layer.
What is volcanic activity?
Mesosaurus fossils were found on these two continents.
What are South America and Africa?
The definition of the word "rate" in a scientific context.
What is "how often or fast something happens?"
The type of plate boundary where plates move toward one another.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The layer beneath the Earth's surface.
What is the mantle?
The natural disaster caused by two plates scraping against one another.
What is an earthquake?
The supercontinent including what is now Australia, South America, Africa, Antarctica, and India.
What is Gondwanaland?
The definition of "cross-section" in a scientific context.
What is convergent?
An underwater landform created when two plates diverge.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Mesosaurus lived primarily near this type of environment.
What is the coast?
The most common unit of measurement for how far a plate moves each year.
This is the type of plate motion that forms a mid-ocean ridge.
What is divergent?
The type of rock that Earth's mantle is made out of.
What is soft, solid rock.
An underwater landform created when two plates converge.
The kind of fox Ms. Miller saw in Washington D.C. over Fall Break.
What is a fennec fox?
What comes out of the mantle at a divergent plate boundary.
What is soft, solid rock that hardens on the edges of the plates?
The type of plate boundary where two plates scrape against each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary?
What goes into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
What is a plate?
The landform that is created when a plate dissolves in the mantle at a convergent boundary.
What is a volcano?
Ms. Miller's SECOND favorite animal.
What is a deer?