Plate Tectonics
The name of the supercontinent that used to exist millions of years ago
What is Pangea?
The type of erosion that is caused by chemical reactions from things such as acid, rain, and iron
What is chemical erosion?
What are fossils?
The type of plate boundary that drifts apart from each other
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This tiny mineral is used by the wind to weather away mountains and pieces of rock
What is sand?
Humans and dinosaurs were alive at the same time. True or False
False!
This type of plate boundary destroys land and pushes against each other to create mountain ranges
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This substance freezes and melts between rocks to create cracks and changes in rock
What is ice?
This is what killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago
What is an asteroid?
This is the kind of plate boundary that slides past each other
What is a transform plate boundary?
When does erosion stop?
Never!
Scientists believe that this creature type is the "modern" dinosaur
Birds
The movement caused by plate tectonics causes what kind of natural disasters around the world (Two possible answers)
Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Ice, water, sand, and wind are contributing factors in this process
What is erosion?
This is the term for the name of what an asteroid creates in the earth's surface after it's hit the Earth
What is a crater?