Heat Transfers
Plate Tectonics
Layers
This
and that
100
What is the transfer of heat through empty space?
Radiation.
100
What is a boundary where two plates slip past one another?
Transform Boundary
100
What is the layer that the lithosphere floats on top of?
Asthenosphere
100
The process which adds new material to the ocean floor.
What is subduction?
100
The older, more dense plate will subduct.
What is when two plates of oceanic crust collide?
200
What is the transfer of heat through liquid?
Convection
200
What is the boundary where plates move together, colliding, forming mountains?
Convergent Boundary
200
The four main layers of earth?
What are the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core?
200
The process by which oceanic crust sinks into deep trenches and back into the mantle.
What is subduction?
200
The scientist who stated the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
What is the transfer of heat through direct conduct?
Conduction
300
What is the boundary where plates move apart?
Divergent Boundary
300
Rock that makes up continental crust.
What is granite.
300
A scientist who studies the forces that shape earth.
What is a geologist?
300
The scientist who stated the theory of Plate Tectonics?
Who is J. Wilson?
400
What is the temperature of the core? (Bonus)
Approximately 10,000 degrees F.
400
The lithosphere is broken into separate sections called ______, that are moving.
Plates
400
Rock that makes up oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
400
Comes out of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is magma?
400
The scientist who discovered sea-floor spreading.
Who is Harry Hess?
500
What is the force that causes the movement of the continents?
Convection Currents
500
This theory explains the formation, movement and subduction of earth's plates.
Plate tectonics
500
A break in the crust where rocks slip past each other.
What is a fault?
500
Fossils of Mesosaurus are evidence of this theory.
What is continental drift?
500
The more dense crust between continental or oceanic.
What is oceanic crust.
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