Vocabulary
Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
What is the outer layer or crust?
Earth's outer layer is divided into sections called ____________.
What are plates?
Two plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
Solid, most dense layer at the center of Earth.
What is the inner core?
What does habitable mean?
What is the ability for life to live in that region/ planet?
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like. X2 points
What is a cross section?
The plates of Earth's outer layer __________________.
What is move?
Two plates move toward each other.
What is convergent?
True or False- Some continents are no longer touching because earthquakes and volcanoes pushed them apart.
False-
Continents are always moving slowly due to movement in the mantle.
An independent variable is what?
What is a variable the experimenter can change?
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Earth's plates move on top of a soft, solid layer called the __________________.
What is the mantle?
The type of boundary that lies between South America and Africa.
What is divergent boundary?
What does Mr. Lawrence commonly relate our hard solid rock under the plates to? X2 points
What is bedrock?
What is a constant variable?
What is something that stays the same in an experiment?
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
What is a trench?
If you removed all the vegetation, soil, and water from the surface of the earth this would be left.
What is hard, solid rock?
Mid-ocean ridge, trench, and volcano.
What is landforms are at plate boundaries?
True or False- Continents slowly moved apart as new plates from underneath got added between them over millions of years.
True-
The soft, solid mantle fills the space.
What does the CER format stand for?
What is claim evidence reasoning?
An extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago.
What is Mesosaurus?
At divergent plate boundaries, rock rises from the mantle and _______, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates. X2 points
What is hardens?
The name of the area in Mexico where a rift occured
What is Baja?
Tsunamis are primarily caused by what geologic process?
What is an earthquake?
The first scientist of the month was who? X2 points
Who was Mark Rober?