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7thGrInsideCh1Sec3-5
7th Grade Inside Earth Chapter 1 Sections 3-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| continental drift | the continents slow movement over Earth's surface |
| fossil | any trace of an ancient organism preserved in rock |
| sonar | a device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects and records the echoes of the sound waves |
| deep-ocean trenches | underwater canyons |
| subduction | proces by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle |
| plates | the separate sections of the lithosphere |
| scientific theory | well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations |
| plate tectonics | pieces of Earths's lithosphere are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle |
| faults | breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other |
| divergent boundary | place where two plates move apart |
| rift valley | deep valley formed along the divergent boundary |
| convergent boundary | place where two plates come together |
| transform boundary | place where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions |