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WorksheetsAmplify Plate Motion
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 4hrs 0mins
What are Tectonic Plates?
Pieces of Earth's Crust and uppermost mantle
hard rock
something that you eat food on
What is a Fossil?
preserved remains of a Prehistoric Organism
Bones
Old bones
remains
What does it mean to Converge?
To meet at a point
To separate
I dont know
to meet and separate
Connect the word
to the picture for Diverge
Diverge
Converge
What does Mesosaurus mean?
Middle Lizard
I don't know
a lizard dinosaur
a dinosaur lizard
What is a Cross Section?
a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
A section cut in two
Something
a section of a cross
Fill in the blank: The outer layer is Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid ____
Rock
Clay
Dirt
Lava
A Paleontologist is someone who studies ______, you must select the two right answers on this question.
Fossils
The past
Paleos
logists
What does Geological mean?
Relating to the study of the Earth's surface
The Earth
Relating to the Earth
Describing the Earth
What is a Core Sample?
a sample of a naturally reoccurring substance
A sample of the Earth's core
a sample of a substance
Life
Plate Tectonics is the theory of what?
A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying crust
A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying atmosphere
A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying exosphere
A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying T-rex
What does it mean to transform?
To change form
to form change
to change from
to from change
What is orogeny?
a process in which a section of the Earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range
not here
when the crust folds
when a mountain range is formed
What is subduction?
a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries
when convergence occurs
when divergence occurs
i don't know
What is Volcanism? there are two answers
volcanic activity
volcanic phenomena
i dont know
volcanos
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
an underwater mountain range
an ocean in a ridge
an ridge in an ocean
i don't know
