Layers
Thinnest Layer is called...
The Crust
This layer causes plates to move
A student made a model of two cars crashing, with one car slightly on top of the other. This is a model of what plate?
Convergent plate boundary
Many changes in the geosphere are caused with this energy
Earth's thermal energy in the mantle
(Parts of) Rock that gets transported and deposited under water
Sediments
This layer is a layer of solid iron and nickel
Inner Core
This layer is made out of melted iron
Outer Core
Plate example that shows how hot matter might enter a space when the plates are moved
Divergent plate boundary when they move away from each other (Doors opening and hot air coming in between them)
Thermal energy causes ______ at the plates.
Movement
Goes through compaction and cementation
Sedimentary rock
This layer is made out of molten rock
Mantle
This layer floats
Crust
Transform plate boundary (moving in opposite directions)
When plates move away from each other, ___________ rises to the surface.
Molten Rock
Gets buried deep underground in heat and pressure
Metamorphic rock
This layer may break apart easily.
Crust
Has the greatest pressure and temperature
Inner Core
Plate tectonics supports that idea that energy is not created or destroyed because ______ energy of Earth is transformed to _________ energy.
thermal/mechanical
The molten rock causes volcanoes to form when ______ comes out.
Lava
Slowly forced to the surface
Metaphoric rock
Geosphere of Earth
The geosphere's landforms cause water in the hydrosphere to collect in certain places, like in mountain valleys or in oceans
Example of how Earth's geosphere interactions with Earth's other systems
What kind of fossils would you see in an aquatic ecosystem vs a terrestrial ecosystem?
fish and seashells vs. birds and dinosaurs
Weathering of larger rocks, erosion of sediment, ______ of sediment in water ways.
Deposition
Metamorphic rock is turned into Igneous by...
Melting and then cooling