Vocabulary
Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Miscellaneous
100
The theory of ______________ explains how the lithosphere is broken into moving plates that float on a layer of partly melted rock.
plate tectonics
100
List the layer of the Earth in order
Crust Mantle Outer Core Inner Core
100
The North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate move away from each other about ____________ cm each year.
2
100
When two plates slide past each other what is most likely to happen at this boundary?
Strong Earthquakes
100
Barnacles live on the side of a whale. The barnacles benefit but do not harm or help the whale. What type of relationship is this?
commensalism
200
Earth's crust and part of the mantle make up the _______.
lithosphere
200
Describe Earth's outer core.
very dense liquid
200
According to the theory of plate tectonics, what may form where plates move together.
mountains
200
Why do most earthquakes in the United States occur in California and Alaska?
These states are located on a plate boundary
200
What types of plants have stems that are easy to bend or break.
Herbaceous
300
Wegener proposed the idea of _____________ to explain why continents seem to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.
continental drift
300
What is the inner core made of?
mostly solid iron
300
Where are Earth's tectonic plates located?
The float on top of the lower mantle.
300
Where are most volcanoes located?
On the ocean floor.
300
Cells that work together to perform a particular function in the body make up ___________.
tissues
400
The place where two plates meet is called a ___________.
plate boundary
400
Why is the inner core solid and not liquid like the outer core?
The inner core is under such pressure that it cannot melt.
400
What "c" word is the force that moves Earth's tectonic plates?
convection in the mantle
400
Describe the two different plate movements that can cause volcanoes.
When two plates move away from each other, and when two plates collide and one moves underneath the other.
400
In seals, (W) is the code for the dominant gene for long whiskers and (w) is the code for recessive short whiskers. What percentage of offspring of one homozygous dominant parent and one heterozygous parent will have short whiskers.
0%
500
Most of Earth's mass is in the ________.
mantle
500
How hot do Scientists think the temperature of the core is?
7000 Degrees Celsius
500
Describe the different ways that plates can move and list the different things that can occur at each one.
spread apart - volcanoes, collide together and create mountains, or collide and one slides under the other and create volcanoes, slide past each other and create earthquakes
500
What does a seismograph detect?
Movement in the ground
500
Which structure within an animal cell recycles worn-out cell parts?
lysosome
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