Geology on Mars/
Plate Motion
Plate Motion
What planet that we studied showed signs of water flowing on it in the distant past?
What is Mars?
What's the term for a rock that contains the remains, or a print of the remains, of a living thing that lived many, many years ago?
What is a fossil?
What's the name of the cycle showing how one type of rock turns into any other type of rock?
What is rock cycle?
What are the three main phases (states) of matter?
What is solid, liquid and gas?
What's the name of the process where plants use sunlight to make glucose?
What is photosynthesis?
What causes earthquakes?
What is plate motion?
What's the term for Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water?
What is crust?
What type of rock forms when magma from the mantle cools and hardens?
What is igneous rock?
What's the name of the phase change where solid turns into a liquid?
What is melting?
What's the name for the chemical reaction that all living things do to release energy they need for living?
What is cellular respiration?
Which of these is the name of one of the supercontinents that existed in the distant past?
What is Pangea?
What's the term for the layer of soft, hot, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates?
What is mantle?
What type of rock forms when rock gets weathered and eroded and builds up in layers?
What is sedimentary rock?
What's the name of the phase change where gas turns into a liquid?
What is condensation?
In the chemical formula H2O, what are hydrogen and oxygen called individually?
What are atoms?
OR
What are elements?
Where do earthquakes and volcanoes tend to be located on Earth?
What are plate boundaries?
The Earth's crust is divided into very large pieces called..
What are plates?
What type of rock forms when one type of rock is subjected to high heat and pressure and turns into another type of rock?
What is metamorphic rock?
What's the name of the phase change where liquid turns into a gas?
What is evaporation?
What do a group of atoms stuck together by bonds called?
What is a molecule?
What causes volcanoes?
What is melted rock from the mantle rising up to the Earth's surface or within the crust?
Long ago when India crashed into Asia, what chain of mountains formed?
What are the Himalayas?
Atoms and molecules are always moving except at this temperature.
What is absolute zero?
What's the name of the phase change where solid turns into a gas? (Hint: dry ice)
What is sublimation?
What's the name for the chemical reaction of burning?
What is combustion?