Fossilized
Sometimes, an animal dies and is quickly covered in
What is sediment?
2 ways scientists date the Earth.
What is absolute age dating and relative age dating?
The extremely hot, inner most layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
How many main plates the lithosphere is broken into.
What is 7 main plates?
The type of boundary that causes mountains to rise.
When fossils are dug up, they are found in this order from top to bottom.
What is youngest to oldest?
The type of dating that gives only an approximate age.
What is relative age dating?
The outer most layer of the Earth?
What is the crust?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The three types of plate boundaries and how they move.
What is transform (slides), convergent (push), divergent (pull)?
The type of boundary that allows magma to rise up between two plates, causing a volcano.
What is divergent?
Fossils are ______.
What is the preserved remains or evidence of once living things?
The type of dating that provides an exact age using parent & daughter isotopes.
What is absolute age dating?
The layer of the Earth that is made up of the crust and the upper most portion of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
Alfred Wagner first proposed this theory that states the continents used to be connected.
What is continental drift?
The type of plate boundary that causes friction and pressure, generally causing an Earthquake.
What is a transform boundary?
The time it takes for fossils to form.
What is millions of years?
The largest part of time on the geological timeline.
What is an eon?
The type of heat transfer that happens in the mantle.
The rate at which the ocean seems to be spreading every year.
What is about 1 inch?
A region of Earth's surface that has experienced volcanism for a long period of time.
What is a volcano hot spot?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
3 things scientists can determine by studying fossils.
What is how and where they lived, what they ate, and the Earth's environment?
The actual order, from longest to shortest, that the Earth's timeline is broken into.
What is eons to eras to periods to epochs?
The 4 main layers of Earth (in order).
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
Where one plate is pulled down, into the mantle (slab pull).
What is at a subduction zone?
This type of natural disaster can happen as a result of an underwater Earthquake.
What is a tsunami?