How do scientists know what is in the Earth's interior?
Volcanos, seismic waves, or drilling to get sample rocks
100
What are the 3 ways heat can be transferred?
Radiation, Conduction, and Convection
100
Name 2 examples of forces?
Gravity, Weathering
100
Convention currents happen in the mantle and ...
the outer core with the liquid metal
200
What is energy?
The ability to do work
200
What are the 3 layers of the earth?
Crust, Mantle, and Core
200
What is an example of Convection?
Making soup on a stove or turning on a fan.
200
What is a very small fragment of a much larger object.
Particle
200
What does the outer core create for the earth?
Earth magnetic field
300
What are two ways energy drives the earth systems?
Heating of the sun and heat flowing out of the Earth as it cools
300
As the depth increases the ________ and _________ increases.
pressure and temperature
300
Why does hot fluid rise?
The hot fluid is less dense therefore it will rise.
300
What is a natural power that acts on an object.
force
300
What is an example of a earth system?
solar system, rock cycle, water cycle
400
Label the 4 main spheres
atmosphere
geosphere
hydrosphere
biosphere
400
What is pressure?
results from a force pressing on an 
area.
400
Explain how convection currents work based on heating soup. Draw a picture. Use the picture to explain.
Miss Buescher is the Judge.
400
What is gravity?
a force that makes objects fall to the center of the earth.
400
What is constantly being transferred inside and all around Earth's surface?
Heat
500
What is the difference between constructive forces and destructive forces?
Constructive forces build up moutons while destructive forces destroy them
500
What are the 3 layers of the mantle?
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Mesosphere
500
How does convection currents work in the earth?
The core and the mantle heats the solid mantle to a substance that can flow. Over and over, the cycle of rising and rising takes place just like the soup.
500
Give a example of a particle?
Miss Buescher is the judge!
500
The movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object is called?