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What is earth's inner core mostly made of?
What is Iron
What are tectonic plates composed of?
What is Oceanic and Continental Crust?
Where do scientist find evidence that the Earth's crust has been lifted above its original level?
What is fossils of sea animals found on mountain tops?
What is the second layer of the earth?
What is the mantle?
When two plates slide past each other is called
What is "transform Boundary"?
What two layers compose the lithosphere?
What is the crust and the mantle
What causes the area around the Pacific Ocean to have an abundance of volcanoes?
What is Convergent Plates?
A Science Class is looking at the fossils in different layers of a cliff. They found fossils of fish in lower layers, which tells them what?
What is that the area used to be underwater
What are some natural disasters that change the Earth's Surface?
What is Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking is called?
What is Convection or Convection Currents
The layer underneath the Mantle is the liquid Outer core what is mostly made of?
What is nickel and iron
What causes mountains to form?
What is two continental plates colliding at a convergent boundary?
Moose can only survive in colder climates. How do we explain finding moose fossils in an area with a warm climate?
What is The area used to have a much colder climate?
Uplift Occurs when?
What is when two plates converge and forces land upward?
When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences that is called?
What is Subduction
What changed the previously held scientific knowledge that the Earth had a hollow center?
What is the observation of ground density through seismic wave analysis.
When plates are being pulled apart by the movement of magma in the mantle it allows magma to do what?
What is ooze up, creating new crust?
The fossils of 1 reptile were found only on the continents of South America and Africa. If this reptile could swim across the Atlantic Ocean, its fossils would have been found on other continents, What theory could be made from this?
What is that earths continents were once closer together?
What happens to plants and animals that die?
What is they decompose?
*Turn into fossils
The name given to the super continent fromt the well supported theory that all the continents used to be connected as one is called?
What is Pangea
How is heat flow and movement in Earth's mantle best represented?
What is When magma is heated it becomes less dense and rises. When magma is cooled it becomes more dense and sinks.
The volcanoes form when what plate moves under what plate at what boundary?
What is when oceanic plates move under continental plates at a convergent boundary?
Three different fossils found in 3 different soil types in three different regions of Wyoming would tell us what?
What is the fossils formed from organisms living in the same time period?
Evidence that organisms have changed over time is called?
What is Evolution
A Scientist who studies earthquakes is called?
What is the Seismologist