Amplify Plate Motion

What is a paleontologist?

• A scientist who studies rocks

• A scientist who studies fossils

• A person who studies humans

• A person who likes to preserve dead things

What is a fossil?

• A dead animal that decayed

• Dead animal bones

• Something that was once alive but now is a ghost

• The remains of a dead organism preserved in something like a rock

What are pieces of the Earth's lithosphere?

• Tectonlic Plates

• Tectonic Piates

• Tectonic Plates

• Tectonc Plates

What does geological mean?

• Relating to the study of the surface of Earth

• Relating to the study of Earth's mountains

• Relating to the study of Mars

• Relating to the study of the surface of Eartn

A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like is..?

• a cross diagonal

• a cross section

• a cross examination

• a core sample

What is a core sample?

• A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• cylindrical section of a substance that is obtained by drilling into it

• cylindrical section of an instance that is obtained by driIIing into it

• A picture of a layered rocks and sediments

What is a small, extinct reptile from Southern Africa and South America called?

• masosaurus

• Mesosaurous

• mesosaurus

• masosarus

What does convergent mean?

• To pull apart

• To go under one another

• To form mountains

• To collide and come together

When two plates pull apart and move away from each other is called?

• divergent

• trivergent

• convergent

• disurgent

What is transforming?

• Sliding away from each other

• Sliding past each other angrily

• Sliding past each other sideways

• Slipping downwards from each other