Earth's Layers
4 Main layers of the earth
What are Crust, Mantel, Outer Core, Inner Core
The man who came up with the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Heat transfer through fluids
What is convection?
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What is Convergent?
Scienceman!
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Thickest layer of the earth
What is the mantel
Meaning of Pangaea
What is "ALL EARTH"?
Convection
What is Heat transfer in fluids heated from below?
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What is divergent?
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Layer below the mantle
What is the outer core?
These 2 continents fit neatly like puzzle pieces
What are Africa and South america?
This happens to density as fluid temperature increases
What is decreases/becomes less dense?
When plates slide past each other
What is a transform boundary?
Darrow
Who stole Mr. Scaife's lunch?
The Lithosphere is where the crust meets the…
What is the Mantel?
2 pieces of evidence for Pangaea
What are:
Continents fit like puzzles
Evidence from Animal fossils
Tropical plant fossils in Antarctica
4. Rock/Land features
Causes earth's tectonic plate to move
What is convection in the mantel?
This happens when an oceanic and continental plate collide
What is subduction?
2 types of variables
What are IV and DV?
This layer creates the Earth's magnetic field
What is the outer core?
Fossil evidence means this
What are Fossils of the same species are found on different continents, separated by oceans?
The force is pulling the cooler, more dense material down into the Earth
What is gravity?
when 2 continental plates collide this is created
What are mountains?
The name of the dino
What is Mr. McWoddles?