Ch 1-1
Ch 1-2
Ch 1-3
Ch 1-5
Misc.
100
How do geologists make observations about Earth’s interior?
What is studying seismic waves
100
Where do convection currents form?
What is asthenosphere in the mantle
100
What is Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift?
What is all of the continents were once joined together in a single landmass, Pangea and since have drifted apart
100
What is a convergent boundary?
What is area where two plates come together
100
Which layer is the thickest of the three main layers?
What is core
200
What is the Earth’s inner core?
What is solid ball of iron and nickel
200
In the asthenosphere, heat is transferred as soft rock flows slowly in cycles know as what?
What is convection currents
200
Name the three types of evidence used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis? Love For Continents
What are 1. landforms 2. fossils 3. climate
200
What causes the movement of the plates?
What is convection currents in the asthenosphere
200
Which layer has the least amount of pressure? The greatest amount?
What is least-crust, greatest-inner core
300
What is the Earth’s mantle?
What is layer of hot rock
300
When you touch a hot plate, the heat is transferred from the plate to your hand by what type of heat transfer?
What is conduction
300
Compared to the oceanic crust, the continental crust is usually(thicker or thinner with more/less dense composition)
What is thicker and less dense
300
Do plates move quickly or slowly?
What is slowly, about a fingernail per year
300
Compared to the continental crust, the oceanic crust is (Think density)
What is more dense
400
What are the forces that shape the Earth’s surface by building up mountains and landmasses?
What is constructive forces
400
The energy from the sun that warms your face is transferred by a process called what?
What is radiation
400
What does the Moho boundary separate?
What is crust and rigid mantle
400
Describe a transform boundary.
What is two plates sliding past each other in opposite direction
400
What caused the interior of Earth to separate into layers?
What is the denser material is in the middle and less dense material is on the outside
500
What happens to pressure as you travel from the crust to the inner core?
What is it increases
500
What is conduction?
What is heat transfer through direct contact of two objects
500
Where does a rift valley form?
What is divergent plate boundary
500
A continental plate collides with an oceanic plate at a(n) what?
What is convergent boundary
500
What causes Earth’s magnetic field? Why?
What is the solid inner core spins inside the liquid outer core, the outer core causes the inner core to spin faster
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