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WorksheetsAmplify Plate Motion
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
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
"When a continental plate crumbles and creates a mountain"- what is this called?
Orogeni
Origin
Orogemy
Orogeny
What is subduction?
Sideways and downward motion of Earth's plates
Sideways and upwards motion of Earth's plates
When a mountain forms
When two plates collide forcefully
What is volcanism?
Being a volcano
Volcanic activity or phenomena
Liking volcanoes
Volcano activists
An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics is what?
A volcano
Mid-Ocean fridge
Mid-Land ridge
Mid-Ocean ridge
A boundary is..?
The outer areas of a tectonic plate in the Earth's crust
Something put between another object
Something you can't go past
The inner areas of tectonic plates
A geological plate where most of the crust is land is what?
Continueal plate
Continemtal plate
Continental plate
Continental Piate
What is an oceanic plate?
A plate used to hold water
Under the sea (under the sea)
A tectonic plate close to the ocean
A tectonic plate on the bottom of the ocean
