Plate Boundaries
These boundaries happen when two plates move away from each other.
What are Divergent boundaries?
These kinds of landforms are usually created when two continental plates converge.
What are mountains?
This outer layer of the earth is made of hard, solid rock.
What is the crust?
The way the continents appear to fit together is often compared to this kind of game.
What is a puzzle?
When two systems are in balance.
What is Equilibrium?
These boundaries happen when plates move towards each other.
What are Convergent boundaries?
These landforms happen at divergent boundaries under the water.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
This inner layer of the earth is made of soft, solid rock.
What is the mantle?
The name used when all the continents were connected.
What is pangea?
The four spheres of a planetary system.
What are geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere?
These boundaries happen when two plates slip past each other.
What are Transform boundaries?
These landforms can happen when a divergent boundary happens on a continental plate.
What are rift valleys?
Where two plates meet.
What is plate boundary?
The scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift
Who is Wegener?
What is an observation?
This kind of boundary adds more rock to the crust.
What is divergent?
This landform occurs when an oceanic plate pushes against another oceanic plate or a continental plate.
What is a trench?
When magma pushes up through the crust, it forms this.
What is a volcano?
What ancient creature are we using this unit as fossil evidence?
What is the mesosaur?
These tiny objects make up everything in the universe.
What are atoms?
At this boundary, the crust is pushed back down into the mantle.
What is convergent?
This kind of plate boundary is not associated with specific landforms.
What is Transform?
Plate motion can cause these events, which can range from 1-9 on the Richter scale.
What are earthquakes?
This part of your body can be used to help understand the rate of plate movement.
What are your fingernails?/how fast your fingernails grow?
The three kinds of variables needed when using the scientific method.
What are dependent (responding), independent (manipulated), and control.