Rockin’ ‘Round the Cycle
What type of rock forms from cooled lava or magma?
What is igneous rock?
What do we call the theory that explains the movement of Earth’s plates?
What is plate tectonics?
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Where does new ocean crust form?
What is at mid-ocean ridges?
Which synthetic material listed is made from plants? Polyester, Paper, or Plastic
What is paper?
What process breaks rocks into smaller pieces without moving them?
What is weathering?
What happens at a convergent boundary?
What is plates collide?
Why might an ancient fish fossil be found high in the mountains?
What is the land was once under water and got pushed up by colliding tectonic plates?
What happens to the age of seafloor rocks as you move away from a mid-ocean ridge?
What is they get older?
What natural resource (raw material) is used to make glass? Sediments (sand), Saclyic Acid, or Sun
What is sediments?
What type of rock forms from compacted and cemented sediments?
What is sedimentary rock?
Which natural process at trenches helps destroy old seafloor?
What is subduction?
Why do some mountain rocks contain fossils of sea creatures?
What is those rocks were once under ancient seas and pushed up by tectonic movement?
What type of plate boundary forms mid-ocean ridges?
What is a divergent boundary?
Why are synthetic materials useful? 1 reason
What is they can be engineered for specific purposes and are often more durable?
How does heat and pressure change a rock?
What is it forms a metamorphic rock?
What kind of evidence supports the movement of tectonic plates?
What is matching fossils, rock types, and continent shapes?
How did the shapes of continents provide early evidence for drift?
What is they fit together like puzzle pieces?
Which two types of tectonic plates pull apart at mid-ocean ridges?
What are two oceanic plates?
What’s the main difference between natural and synthetic materials?
What is natural materials occur in nature, while synthetic ones are human-made from natural resources?
What is the source that drives the rock cycle?
What is Earth's internal heat from the mantle?
What drives the movement of tectonic plates?
What are convection currents in the mantle?
What proof found on Everest says it once slept under the sea?
What is limestone containing sea animal fossils?
What eventually happens to the old ocean floor?
What is it gets subducted at trenches?
What do synthetic materials like nylon and natural materials like cotton have in common, despite their different origins?
What is both can be used to make useful products like clothing, and both come from natural resources originally?