How do Geologists obtain indirect evidence about Earth's interior?
Studying Seismic Waves
100
The type of heat transfer where molecules have to be touching.
What is conduction
100
Landform from when subduction occurs at a Oceanic Convergent boundary.
What is a Deep Ocean Trench
100
The name of the pieces of the broken up Lithosphere.
What is Tectonic Plates?
100
The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea?
200
Describe Earth's inner core:
dense ball of solid metal
200
Heat transfer takes place in liquids by this type of heat transfer.
What is Convection currents?
200
The process that causes Oceanic Crust plates to pull apart at a divergent boundary?
What is Sea Floor Spreading
200
What happens to the crust when it pulled down into the asthenosphere?
What is melting?
200
The plart of the mantle that is made of soft rock.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
Movement in which layer causes the Earth's Magnetic field?
Outer Core
300
Transfers heats through empty space
What is Radiation?
300
The reason Wegener's theory of continental drift was rejeacted.
He was unable to identify the moving force of the continents.
300
What are the two different types of crust?
What is Oceanic and Continental?
300
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's Lithosphere are in constant slow motion.
What is Plate Tectonics?
400
Which layer is broken into plates?
Lithosphere
400
When you touch a ot pot or pan, energy moves from the pot to your hand.
What is heat transfer?
400
The process that pulls down the more dense plate at a Convergent Boundary. This process is what causes the ocean floor to sink beneath a deep-ocean trench.
What is Subduction?
400
What occurs when two plates pull apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary.
400
Sea-floor spreading continually adds new crust to both sides.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
500
What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
500
What happens to the molecules of a fluid when they are heated?
The atoms within the molecule spread out allowing gases to get inbetween the atoms causing the density to decrease.
500
The type of fault where earthquakes occur most frequently.
What is Transform boundary.
500
This occurs when two plates slip past eachother in opposite directions.
What is a sliding boundary?
500
The theory where at one time all of the continents were joined together and slowly drifted apart.