Earth's Outer Layer
What is Earth’s outer layer made of?
What is HARD, SOLID ROCK?
What is the place where two plates meet?
What is A PLATE BOUNDARY?
What type of material is the mantle made of?
What is SOFT, SOLID ROCK?
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Geologists study _______ in landforms and geologic events to understand Earth?
What is PATTERNS?
What does the word “rate” mean in science?
What is HOW OFTEN OR HOW FAST SOMETHING HAPPENS?
What do we call the large sections that make up Earth’s outer layer?
What are PLATES?
What are the plates doing at a divergent boundary?
What is PLATES MOVE AWAY FROM EACH OTHER?
How do plates move in relation to the mantle?
What is THE PLATES MOVE ON TOP OF THE MANTLE?
When scientists analyze data, what are they doing?
What is EXAMINE IN DETAIL FOR A PURPOSE?
What formula is used to calculate the rate of plate movement?
What is RATE = DISTANCE ÷ TIME?
This is what we call the thicker part of a plate.
What is a CONTINENT?
What are the plates doing at a convergent boundary?
What is PLATES MOVE TOWARD EACH OTHER?
When a plate sinks into the mantle, what happens to it?
What is IT IS DESTROYED?
What is IT BECOMES PART OF THE MANTLE?
What geologic processes/patterns show plate motion?
What are EARTHQUAKES and VOLCANOES/VOLCANIC ACTIVITY?
True or False
It takes a short amount of time for Earth's plates to travel great distances.
What is FALSE?
It takes a long time for Earth's plates to travel great distances.
What diagram do scientists use to show what the inside of something looks like?
What is a CROSS-SECTION?
What landform is created only at a convergent boundary?
What is a TRENCH?
What kind of geologic processes often happens at convergent and divergent boundaries?
What is VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND EARTHQUAKES?
What do scientists use cross-section diagrams for?
What is TO SEE WHAT THE INSIDE OF SOMETHING LOOKS LIKE?
Why can’t we feel the plates moving beneath us?
What is THEY MOVE TOO SLOWLY FOR US TO DETECT/FEEL IT?
What do we call the layer that sits below Earth’s plates?
What is the MANTLE?
What landform is created only at a divergent boundary under the ocean?
What is a MID-OCEAN RIDGE?
What becomes hard, solid rock at divergent boundaries?
What is MAGMA?
What do the locations of Mesosaurus fossils on different continents help scientists learn about the South American and African plate motion?
What is IT SHOWS THAT THE PLATES WERE ONCE CONNECTED?
What is IT SHOWS THAT THE PLATES DIVERGED?
What technology helps scientists measure how plates move today?
What is GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)?