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Vocabulary
100

What is earth's inner core mostly made of?

What is Iron

100

What are tectonic plates composed of?

What is Oceanic and Continental Crust?

100

Where do scientist find evidence that the Earth's crust has been lifted above its original level?

What is fossils of sea animals found on mountain tops?

100

What is the second layer of the earth?

What is the mantle?

100

When two plates slide past each other is called

What is "transform Boundary"?

200

What two layers compose the lithosphere?

What is the crust and the mantle

200

What causes the area around the Pacific Ocean to have an abundance of volcanoes?

What is Convergent Plates?

200

A Science Class is looking at the fossils in different layers of a cliff.  They found fossils of fish in lower layers, which tells them what?

What is that the area used to be underwater

200

What are some natural disasters that change the Earth's Surface?

What is Earthquakes and Volcanoes

200

Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking is called?

What is Convection or Convection Currents

300

The layer underneath the Mantle is the liquid Outer core what is mostly made of?

What is nickel and iron

300

What causes mountains to form?

What is two continental plates colliding at a convergent boundary?

300

Moose can only survive in colder climates. How do we explain finding moose fossils in an area with a warm climate?

What is The area used to have a much colder climate?

300

Uplift Occurs when?

What is when two plates converge and forces land upward?

300

When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences that is called?

What is Subduction

400

What changed the previously held scientific knowledge that the Earth had a hollow center?

What is the observation of ground density through seismic wave analysis.

400

When plates are being pulled apart by the movement of magma in the mantle it allows magma to do what?

What is ooze up, creating new crust?

400

The fossils of 1 reptile were found only on the continents of South America and Africa. If this reptile could swim across the Atlantic Ocean, its fossils would have been found on other continents, What theory could be made from this?

What is that earths continents were once closer together?

400

What happens to plants and animals that die?

What is they decompose?

*Turn into fossils

400

The name given to the super continent fromt the well supported theory that all the continents used to be connected as one is called?

What is Pangea

500

How is heat flow and movement in Earth's mantle best represented?

What is When magma is heated it becomes less dense and rises. When magma is cooled it becomes more dense and sinks.

500

The volcanoes form when what plate moves under what plate at what boundary?

What is when oceanic plates move under continental plates at a convergent boundary?

500

Three different fossils found in 3 different soil types in three different regions of Wyoming would tell us what?

What is the fossils formed from organisms living in the same time period?

500

Evidence that organisms have changed over time is called?

What is Evolution

500

A Scientist who studies earthquakes is called?

What is the Seismologist