Layers of the Earth
The thinnest layer of the earth, made of hard solid rock
What is the earth?
The animal the Mesosaurus is most like that is still alive today
An alligator/crocodile
Hot liquid rock ON the earths surface
What is Lava?
SPHERE of the earth that is classified as oceans, rivers, anything with water
Hydrosphere
Ms. Olsen's favorite animal
The thickest layer of the earth
What is the Mantle?
The continents that the Mesosaurus fossils were found
South America and Africa
Tectonic Plates come together at these points
What is Plate Boundaries?
A sudden shaking of the earth
An earthquake
How old Ms. Olsen is
22 years old
The mantle and the lower crust consist of this substance, it moves inside the earth constantly cooling and heating up
Magma
The evidence of continental drift (2 answers)
Continents fit together like puzzle pieces and fossils from the Mesosaurus where found on two different continents
any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America
What is a continent
When tectonic plates move TOWARDS each other
Convergent Boundaries
The state where Ms. Olsen is from
Illinois
The three different types of plate boundaries
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
The youngest a fossil can be, to be considered a fossil
10,000 Years
The supercontinent that existed a long long time ago
What is Pangea
When tectonic plates rub against each other and cause earthquakes
Transform Boundaries
Ms. Olsen's first name
The densest, hottest part of the earth due to gravity and pressure
What is the Inner core
This person studies the history of the earth
Proof that something is true, examples: fossils and marking where earthquakes have occurred
Evidence
The geosphere and the earths crust bot consist of this
What is hard solid rock
Ms. Olsen's favorite sport (she did it for 14 years)
What is swimming