Provide clues to the climate and environment in which organisms lived.
What are fossils?
100
The solid, outermost layer of Earth is broken up into these.
What are tectonic plates?
100
Movement along these causes earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building.
What are plate boundaries?
100
Form underwater trenches.
What convergent boundaries?
100
How you spell your teacher's last name.
What is J-I-M-E-N-E-Z?
200
These people get an idea of how things lived by studying fossils.
What are scientists?
200
________ is broken up into seven large plates.
What is the lithosphere?
200
Where two plates crash into each other.
What are converging boundaries?
200
The three types of convergent boundaries.
What are continental-continental, oceanic-continental, and oceanic-oceanic boundaries?
200
Ms. Jimenez's lucky number.
What is 17?
300
90% of every type of living thing that has ever been on this planet is now_____________.
What is extinct?
300
The largest of the tectonic plates.
What is the Pacific Plate?
300
Where two plates move away from each other.
What are diverging boundaries?
300
Where collisions between plates form high mountains, such as the Himalaya.
What are continental-continental boundaries?
300
Ms. Jimenez's three favorite colors.
What are green, purple, and black?
400
Animals that feed on decaying or dead animal and plant matter.
What are scavengers?
400
A crack in Earth's crust along which movement takes place.
What is a fault?
400
Where two plates slide horizontally past each other.
What are transform boundaries?
400
Where collisions between plates cause subduction.
What are oceanic-continental boundaries?
400
How many students are in Ms. Jimenez's homeroom.
What are 33?
500
Organisms that feed on and break down dead plants.
What are decomposers?
500
These are the seven plates:
What are the Pacific Plate, the Australian Plate, the Antarctic Plate, the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate, the African Plate, and the South American Plate?
500
Occurs when the upper plate forces the edge of the lower plate under the surface.
What is subduction?
500
Where collisions between plates form trenches, such as the Mariana Trench.