Vocabulary
What is a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like?
Cross-section
What is the layer of soft solid rock underneath Earth's plates?
Mantle
Earth's _______ layer is made of hard, solid rock.
outer
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What is "how often or fast something happens"?
What is "to examine in detail for a purpose"?
Analyze
What is Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation and water?
Outer layer
Geologists look for ________ in landforms and in geologic events in order to better understand Earth.
patterns
What is one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer?
Plate
How long did it take the Mosasaurs fossils to move 4,000km away from each other?
Earthquake
What is the layer made of solid metals due to pressure?
Earth's plates move on top of a soft, solid layer of rock called the ______.
mantle
What is a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together?
trench
What type of plate boundary exists between the South American Plate and the African Plate?
A divergent plate boundary.
What is something we observe to be similar over and over again?
Pattern
What is the layer made from metals such as Nickle and liquid Iron?
At ____________ plate boundaries, rock rises from the mantle and hardens, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates.
divergent
plate boundary
What is the landform that gives us evidence to prove that they boundary type is divergent?
The mid-Atlantic ridge
Eruptions and lava flows are examples of what?
Volcanic Activity
What is another name for earth's outer layer/crust?
Lithosphere
At _________ plate boundaries, one plate moves underneath the other plate and sinks into the mantle.
convergent
What is any of the many processes in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of the Earth?
Volcanic Activity
How far apart are the Mosasaurs' fossils?
4,000km apart