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A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
a sudden shaking of Earth's surface
What is an earthquake?
any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, North America, or Asia.
What is a continent?
moving toward the same place
What is Convergent?
the outside or top layer of something
What is a surface?
Something we observe to be similar over and over again.
What is a pattern?
hot liquid rock on the surface of the Earth
What is lava?
a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
What is a Landform?
Moving apart in different directions
What is Divergent?
an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
What is a Mesosaurus?
an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to use.
What is a model?
hot liquid rock below the surface of the Earth
What is Magma?
the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates.
What is the Mantle?
an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge
a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
What is a cross section?
information about the natural world that is used to support or go against a claim.
What is Evidence?
a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
What is a Geyser?
Earth's outermost layer of hard solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
What is the outer layer?
the place where two plates meet
What is a Plate Boundary?
how often or fast something happens
What is a Rate?
the process of making clear how your evidence supports a claim.
What is Reasoning?
the sudden pushing out of something such as lava from a volcano
What is an Eruption?
one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer
What is a Plate?
a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
What is a trench?
to examine in detail for a purpose
What is Analyze?