CER
Scientists use this to make a statement that answers a question.
What is a claim?
He proposed the idea that the continents were once joined in a supercontinent.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The theory that Earth’s surface is made of moving plates is called this.
What is plate tectonics?
This is the thin, outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
This fossil fuel forms when plants die, are buried, and compressed in ancient swamp forests.
What is coal?
This part of CER provides data or observations that support the claim.
What is evidence?
Wegener’s supercontinent was called this.
What is Pangaea?
When two plates move away from each other, this type of boundary forms.
What is a divergent boundary?
These large, rigid pieces make up Earth’s surface and move over the mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
This fossil fuel forms from tiny marine organisms that died, absorbed carbon from the sun, and sank to the ocean floor with moderate heat.
What is oil?
This explains how the evidence supports the claim using scientific principles.
What is reasoning?
Similar remains of plants and animals found on continents now far apart were this kind of evidence for continental drift.
What are fossils?
When plates collide and one slides beneath another, this occurs.
What is subduction?
This type of crust is denser and found under oceans.
What is oceanic crust?
This fossil fuel forms from tiny marine organisms that experienced more heat and pressure than oil.
What is natural gas?
The method of collecting information using your five senses.
What is an observation?
Evidence of these cold formations found in warm regions today helped support Wegener’s theory.
What are glaciers?
Earthquakes often occur at these boundaries where plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
This type of crust is thicker and forms the continents.
What is continental crust?
Coal is most commonly found in these types of regions.
What are warm and humid areas?
The explanation you make based off your observations, using past knowledge & experiences.
What is an inference?
Similar ranges found on different continents supported the idea that they were once connected.
What are mountains?
This is the boundary California sits on top of. Include type and name.
What is San Andreas, a transform boundary?
The crust and the uppermost mantle together form this layer.
What is the lithosphere?
Oil and gas deposits are often found in these areas near plate boundaries, such as deserts, arctic zones, and river deltas.
What are convergent collision and subduction plate boundaries?