Amplify Plate Motion

What is a Paleontologist?

• Studies fossils

• Studies the Earth

• Studies Planets

• Studies dead people

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What is a Fossil?

• Human

• the remains of a Dead animal

• Rock

• Living animal

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What is a Tectonic Plate?

• Giant rock

• Plate that you eat on

• The crust of the earth which move around like the continents

• Pangaea

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What is geology?

• Trees

• Layers

• earth's physical structure and substance.

• Earth

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What is cross section?

• An X

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

• Crust

• Cross

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What is a core sample?

• a naturally occurring substance

• Sample at Costco

• Core of the Earth

• Earth

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What is a Mesosaurous?

• Fish

• Crocodile

• Alligator

• an extinct small aquatic reptile of the early Permian period, with an elongated body, flattened tail, and a long narrow snout with numerous needlelike teeth.

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What is Converging plates?

• Plates go away

• In plate tectonics, a convergent boundary, also known as a destructive plate boundary, is a region of active deformation where two or more tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere are near the end of their life cycle.

• plates ram into eachother

• Plates slide across

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What is a Divergent Boundary?

• Move towards eachother

• Slide past eachother

• is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

• Dont move

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What is a Transform fault?

• Crash into eachother

• Divergent

• Makes mountains

• the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly and is connected to another transform, a spreading ridge, or a subduction zone

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