science vocab 8th grade

hot liquid rock on the surface of earth

• lava

• fossil

• geyser

• trench

to examine in detail for a purpose

• magma

• analyze

• eruption

• continent

how often or fast something happens

• mesosaurus

• rifting

• surface

• rate

the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement

• analyze

• rifting

• lava

• eruption

the outside or top layer of something

• pattern

• plate

• cross section

• earthquake

• surface

something we observe to be similar over and over again

• plate boundary

• pattern

• earthquake

• mantle

the layer of soft, solid rock underneath earth's plates

• mantle

• surface

• mesosaurus

• outer layer

the place where the plates meet

• magma

• lava

• plate boundary

• surface

Moving toward the same place

• mantle

• plate

• outer layer

• convergent

the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano

• anyalyze

• eruption

• divergent

• trench