Continental Drift
Earthquakes happen most frequently at this type of plate boundary.
What is Transform
All living things on Earth are found in or on this layer of the Earth?
What is the Crust or Lithosphere
What are 3 things that happen when Radiation hits the Earth?
What is Reflection, Absorption and Transmition
The force that attracts objects to the center of the Earth
What is Gravity
Mountains form MOST frequently at this type of plate boundary.
What is Convergent
True or False: The mantle is made of only solid material.
What is False
What are the 3 types of Thermal Energy?
What is Conduction, Convection and Radiation
What makes the leaves on trees turn green?
What is Chlorophyll
The name where 2 or more plates meet are called
What are Plate Boundaries
What part of the core contains solid Nickel and Iron?
What is the Outer Core
A _______________ is movement (usually circular) that happens because the differences in temperature in the fluid will cause changes in density.
What is Convection Current
The ________________, are rows and column arrangement of the chemical elements.
What is the periodic table of elements
Briefly describe what was Alfred Wegener's Theory.
What is Pangea (supercontinent). The continents were once together then they broke apart.
The Asthenosphere is located in which layer of the Earth?
What is the Mantle
The reason cold liquids sink and warm/hot liquids rise is?
What is Density. Because cold liquids are more dense than warm/hot liquids
This process is how plants produce their food.
What is Photosynthesis
The ____________ is a string of volcanoes and location of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire
What is the correct order of Earth's layers (start from the surface and include lithosphere and asthenosphere in your answer)?
What is crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, outer core, inner core
What are 2 reasons that Tectonic Plates move?
What is Gravity and Convection
The body's biggest organ is what?
What is Skin