What About Earth?
That's Hot
Get My Drift
The Sea-floor is Spreading
I Like to Move it, Move it
100
Forces that shape Earth's surface by building up mountains and landmasses.
What are constructive forces?
100
When you touch a hot pan, the energy or heat moves from the pot to your hand. This is called what?
What is conduction?
100
Wegner's theory where the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since moved apart.
What is continental drift?
100
The magnetic stripes at the mid-ocean ridge are this on both sides.
What is the same?
100
The formation of volcanoes and mountain ranges can be explained by the theory of this.
What is plate tectonics?
200
Scientists who study the forces that make and shape planet Earth are called this.
What are geologists?
200
Heat transfer within a fluid.
What are convection currents?
200
What feature in South America and Africa is evidence of continental drift?
What are mountains?
200
The longest mountain chain on Earth
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
200
At a rift valley, the two plates do this at this boundary.
What is move apart at a divergent boundary?
300
Earth's inner core is a dense ball of this.
What is solid metal?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! This layer of the Earth is made up partly of crust and partly of mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
300
Name the three evidence of of continental drift.
What are landforms, fossils, and climate?
300
This is the type of rock is the sea floor mostly made of.
What is basalt?
300
When there is a collision at two continental crusts, this forms.
What are mountains?
400
The cause for Earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core spinning faster than the inner core.
400
The definition of radiation and two examples of radiation.
What is feeling heat from the sun, fire, or light?
400
This drives the plates to move.
What are convection currents in the mantle?
400
The type of boundary found at the mid-ocean ridge.
What is the divergent boundary?
400
When a continental and oceanic crust converge, subduction happens. Which plate would subduct and why?
What is the ocean plate because it is denser?
500
The reason why scientists believe the inner core is solid metal.
What is the inner core is under extreme pressure?
500
What are the three factors that drive convection currents?
What are difference in temperature, difference in density, and gravity?
500
Explain why coal found in Antarctica is a type of evidence of continental drift.
What is coal was made from swamps which are only found in warm areas. This means that Antarctica was not originally in the polar regions and must have been closer to the equator where it is warmer.
500
Name the three types of evidence of sea-floor spreading.
What are molten material, drilling samples, magnetic stripes?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Name the three types of plate boundaries and how each of them move.
What is convergent boundary - plates move toward each other, divergent boundary - plates move away from each other, and transform boundary - plates move past each other?
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