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History
Vocabulary
Layers of the Earth
Plates
Lyrics to Rap
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He discovered the theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface
What is Magma?
100
Depth of mantle
What is 2,800 km?
100
8 main tectonic plates
What is Australian, African, Antarctic, Pacific, Indian, Eurasian, North American, and South American
100
Plates move as slow as...
What is your fingernails grow?
200
The formation of Yucca Mountain
What is less than 50 million years ago?
200
A steep volcano made of hardened lava, rock, and ash.
What is a composite volcano (stratovolcano)?
200
The upper mantle and crust
What is the Lithosphere?
200
The third largest tectonic plate
What is the Eurasian plate?
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Convergent collide, divergent divide...
What is Transform tectonic plates slide?
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The time interval that held the extinction of dinosaurs
What is 50-250 million years ago?
300
A single landmass that existed from about 200-350 million years ago and was separated by plate tectonics, forming the current continents.
What is Pangea?
300
Outer core temperature range
What is 2,800-5,200 degrees celsius?
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The force that is believed to make the plates move
What are Convection Currents?
300
Or subduction occurs and then...
What is volcanoes form?
400
The plant that was found across the world
What is Glossopteris?
400
A large gently sloping volcano made from fluid lava
What is a Shield Volcano?
400
The mantle temperature range
What is 700-2,800 degrees celsius?
400
The smallest tectonic plate on Earth
What is the Juan de Fuca?
400
It causes magma to rise..
What is from the mantle below?
500
The formation of the Appalachian mountain range?
What is more than 500 million years ago?
500
Periods of thousands, millions, and billions of years referred to by geologists, paleontologists, and other scientists who study the Earth's history.
What is Geological Time?
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The depth of the inner core
What is 6,400 kilometers?
500
The plate that holds the Ring of Fire
What is the Pacific plate?
500
And then the sudden release'll cause...
What is a violent earthquake?