Shapes the surface by building up mountains and landmasses.
What are constructive forces?
100
The movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat transfer?
100
A person who studies rocks and the Earth's forces.
What is a geologist?
100
What is in the center of the Earth that helps to make the Earth magnetic?
What is a solid metal ball (The inner core)?
200
The core is broken up into these two sections.
What are the outer and inner core.
200
Shapes the Earth by slowly wearing away mountains and other land masses.
What are destructive forces?
200
The transfer of energy through empty space.
What is radiation?
200
What the seven land masses are called.
What are continents?
200
A well tested theory that explains a wide range of observations.
What is a scientific theory?
300
The layer directly under the crust.
What is the lithosphere.
300
The force pushing on a surface or area.
What is pressure?
300
The transfer of energy by the movement of a heated fluid.
What is convection?
300
A dense rock that makes up much of the ocean.
What is basalt?
300
The theory that states that pieces of the Earth's lithoshpere are in constant, slow motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
400
The main four layers of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
400
A measure of how much mass there is in the volume of a substance.
What is density?
400
The transfer of energy by direct particles of matter.
What is conduction?
400
A less dense rock that makes up much of the continents.
What is granite?
400
A break in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
500
The thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
500
What force sent the continents spreading apart?
What are convection currents?
500
The forces that combine to set convection currents in motion.
What are the heating and cooling of a fluid, changes in the fluids density, and the force of gravity?
500
The lithosphere is broken in these separate sections.
What are plates?
500
The three boundaries and what the places do at them.
What is are transform boundaries (plates move past each other), divergent boundaries (plates move away from each other), and convergent boundaries (plates move towards each other)?