It's important to have boundaries
What are the three (3) types of plate boundaries?
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform.
What layer of the Earth is affected by weathering and erosion?
What is The Crust
What was the name of the super continent that existed Millions of years ago?
What is Pangea.
What layer of rock is the youngest in an undisturbed sequence of layer?
What is The Top Layer.
This type of scientific investigation involves observing WITHOUT changing any variables?
What is A Scientific Observation.
This type of boundary is represented by two arrows point at one another. (--> <--)
What is the thickest layer of the earth that is partially liquid and partially solid?
What is the Mantle.
What was the first thing that prompted Wegener to believe that the continents were connected.
What is Geographic Fit.
A fault or intrusion occurs _______ rock layers have formed.
What is After.
What is a scientific idea that DESCRIBES a natural event? This idea can also be written as a math equation.
What is A Scientific Law
What happens when two (2) tectonic plates get stuck on one another while sliding past each other.
What is An Earthquake.
What layer of the Earth is fully solid, made of nickel and iron, and is also the hottest layer?
What is The Inner Core
What is the scientific theory that explains that the Earth's plates are always on the move?
What is the Theory of Plates Tectonics.
What type of rock is created by magma intusions?
What is Igneous.
What is a scientific idea that explains HOW or WHY something happens? This idea can change when new evidence is discovered.
What is A Scientific Theory.
What are the two (2) landforms that can be created at a convergent boundary.
What are Mountains and Volcanoes.
The inner core is so hot that it causes this type of heat movement in the Earth's mantle. This type of heat movement involves heat rising and sinking as it gets cooler, causing tectonic plate movement.
If scientists find similar trace fossils on the coast of Africa that match trace fossils on the coast of South America, what does this discovery suggest?
What is That The Continents Were All Connected.
A mountain that is shorter and rounded peaks is _________ than a taller mountain with sharp jagged peaks. (This is because of weathering and erosion)
What is Older.
What do scientific laws and scientific theories have in common?
What is They Are Both Backed by Evidence.
This is the landform that is created as the result of divergent plate boundaries.
What is A Ridge.
What is the name of the cooler, rigid, brittle outer shell consisting of the crust and uppermost mantle; broken into tectonic plates?
What is The Lithosphere.
What is the process that uses heat from the Earth's inner core to move the tectonic plates?
What is Mantle Convection
This type of dating looks at how old that atoms in a rock are.
What is Radioactive Dating.
What are the three (3) variables needed to conduct an experiment?
What are Control, Independent, and Dependent.