Section 1: Earth's Interior
A scientist who studies the forces that make and shape planet Earth
What is a Geologist?
The movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object
What is heat transfer?
A German scientist who suggested that the continents had moved
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The longest chain of mountains in the world
What is mid-ocean ridge?
This explains the formation, movement, and subduction of Earth's plates
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
The study of planet Earth
What is Geology?
There are three types of heat transfer
What are radiation, convection, and conduction?
A continent formed as one large landmass
What is Pangea?
An American Geologist who studied the MOR
Who is Harry Hess?
There are three kinds of plate boundaries
What are transform boundaries, divergent boundaries, and convergent boundaries?
Earthquakes produce BLANK waves
What are seismic waves?
The transfer of energy through empty space
What is radiation?
The slow movement of continents
What is continental drift?
The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor
What is sea floor spreading?
Two plates that slip past each other (causes earthquakes)
What are transform boundaries?
A layer of solid rock that forms Earth's outer skin
What is the crust?
Heat transfer by direct contact between particles of matter
What is conduction?
Most scientist BLANK Alfred Wegener's theory
What is rejection?
Deep water canyons
What are deep-ocean trenches?
Place where plates diverge/move apart
What are divergent boundaries?
Crust that forms the continents and is made up of mostly rocks (granite)
What is continental crust?
Heat transfer by the movement of a heated fluid
What is convection?
Rocks and fossils gave clues about BLANK
What is climate?
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and into the mantle
What is subduction?
Two plates come together
What are convergent boundaries?