If you plot every rainstorm around the world on a map for a month. What would you learn?

Where the rain was most frequently at

What is a mid-ocean ridge?

Two plates in the ocean separating

What is a rift valley?

Two plates in the middle of a continent separating

How can rock layers help measure time?

Different age rocks may have different fossils in them

Why does earth behave like a magnet?

currents on the outer crust layer

I have a fossil in my yard.It was a fish.I don’t live near water.Why might I have a fish fossil

There used to be water there a long time ago.

How might a volcano erupt?

Plates collide and magma comes up through the cracks

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1
What do you use to date fossils?
Rock Layers
Smell
Salt
Vinegar
2
If you plot every rainstorm around the world on a map for a month. What would you learn?
How much damage the rain caused
The number of raindrops there were
Where the rain was most frequently at
How many people saw rain
3
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
One plate going under another and one goes up
Plates rubbing together
Two plates in the ocean separating
Two plates in the middle of a continent separating
4
What is a rift valley?
Two plates in the middle of a continent separating
Two plates in the ocean separating
One plate going under another and one goes up
Plates rubbing together
5
How are mountains formed?
Two plates separating
Two plates rubbing together
Two plates colliding
6
Do glaciers move across the earth moving rocks/fossils & creating grooves & scratches in rock?
No
Yes
7
What is the center of the earth made out of?
Solid
Lava
Ice Cream
Gas
8
Does earth behave like a magnet?
Yes
No
9
How fast do tectonic plates move?
They can't move at all?
1-10 centimeters a year
1-10 inches a year
1-10 miles a year
10
How can rock layers help measure time?
Different age rocks may have different fossils in them
Different age rocks taste different
Different age rocks smell different
Different age rocks like different rock music
11
Why does earth behave like a magnet?
Lots of metal devices (like computers and phones)
currents on the outer crust layer
Lots of iron
Currents on the inner core layer
12
What are the three basic layers of earth?
Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
Core, mantle, crust
Magma, Tectonic Plates, Water
13
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
Volcanoes
Earth rotations
Heat from earth
Ocean waves
14
Why did Wegener think the continents moved?
He didn’t think they moved
Fossils in weird places
He used a ruler
Satellite images
15
I have a fossil in my yard.It was a fish.I don’t live near water.Why might I have a fish fossil
The fish used to have legs so it walked on land.
It wasn’t really a fish, I was wrong.
There used to be water there a long time ago.
I visited the ocean and forgot and dropped it.
16
What happens when two plates rub together and cause pressure?
Earthquake
Rift-Valley
Mid-Ocean Ridge
They beat each other up and get suspended
17
What direction does a compass needle always point?
East
West
North
South
18
How might a volcano erupt?
They just erupt every five years no matter what.
Plates collide and magma comes up through the cracks
It gets really mad
Plates vibrate together
19
Where would you most likely have an earthquake?
Borders of oceans and land
Borders of rivers and land
Under a big tree as the roots moved
Borders of two tectonic plates

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