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Plate Tectonics
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100
Plate Tectonics is a theory that says the earth's crust is made of crust pieces that are ...
What is moving slowly?
100
What causes seasons?
What is the tilt of the earth on its axis?
100
This is when water falls from the sky (in any form)...
What is precipitation?
100
Name three main rock types...
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
100
When two crustal plates meet and one slides under the other (ocean plate slides under the continent plate for ex.) that is called...
What is a subduction zone?
200
The type of plate boundary where the plates are coming together is called...
What is a convergent boundary?
200
This is when the earth travels completely around the sun one time (also known as a year)...
What is a revolution?
200
This compound is breathed out by animals and taken in by plants during photosynthesis...
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
200
Sandstone is this type of rock (made from little bits of broken rock pieces squished together)...
What is a sedimentary rock?
200
This is a grouping of billions of stars and our universe is made up billions of them...
What is a galaxy?
300
The type of plate boundary where the plates are going apart from each other is called...
What is a divergent boundary?
300
This is when the earth spins completely one time around its own axis (also known as a day)...
What is a rotation?
300
This is what can happen to plant and animals dead remains over millions of years if the conditions are just right (lots of heat and pressure)...
What is become fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas)?
300
This rock type forms from cooling magma/lava...
What is igneous rock?
300
This kind of organism can make its own food through the process of photosynthesis...
What is a producer (or an autotroph)?
400
The type of plate boundary where the plates are sliding past each other is called...
What is a transform boundary?
400
This is where stars are born?
What is a nebula?
400
This is when the moon appears completely unlit from the Earth (looks like no moon at all)...
What is a new moon?
400
This rock type can form from other types of rock that have undergone tremendous heat and pressure...
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
You can always tell how many elements make up a compound (NaHCO3) by looking for the number of...
What is capital letters?
500
The type of land formation that is present when two continent plates crash into each other (like India and Asia) is called...
What is mountains?
500
This is the distance that light travels in one year's time (nearly 6 trillion miles!!)
What is a light year?
500
This is when plants allow water vapor and gasses such as oxygen to come out of their leaves...
What is transpiration or plant respiration?
500
This is when rocks are broken down into smaller and smaller pieces by water, wind, ice, ...
What is waethering?
500
Water can hold a lot more heat before it changes its temperature so we would say that it has...
What is a high specific heat (capacity)?