vocab practice

a sudden shaking of Earth's surface

• landform

• divergent

• convergent

• earthquake

a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune

• landform

• earthquake

• convergent

• divergent

moving apart in different directions

• divergent

• eruption

• convergent

• fossil

moving toward the same place

• divergent

• eruption

• fossil

• convergent

a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

• eruption

• fossil

• cross section

• mantle

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

• continent

• mantle

• earthquake

• eruption

any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America

• mantle

• continent

• mesosaurous

• cross section

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

• mantle

• landform

• continent

• earthquake

evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• mantle

• mesosaurous

• fossil

• landform

an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago

• earthquake

• fossil

• landform

• mesosaurous