Earth's Interior
Heat Transfer
Drifting Continents
Sea Floor Spreading
Plate Tectonics
100
The 4 main layers of the Earth
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
100
What are the 3 types of heat transfer?
What is radiation, conduction, convection
100
What is the name of the supercontinent meaning "all lands"
What is Pangaea
100
What is the name of the longest mountain chain in the world which runs through all of Earth's oceans?
What is the mid-ocean ridge
100
The Earth's crust is broken into lots of "puzzle pieces" that fit together. We call these pieces what?
What are plates
200
Something that builds up landmasses on Earth's surface is called a?
What is constructive force
200
Touching a hot pot on the stove is an example of?
What is conduction
200
Who came up with the theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener
200
The theory of Sea Floor Spreading says that the ocean floor acts like a giant what?
What is a conveyor belt
200
Breaks in Earth's crust along a plate boundary are called?
What are faults
300
This layer is made up of the upper part of the mantle and the crust
What is the lithosphere
300
The sand at the beach being hot on a sunny day is an example of
What is radiation
300
What are the 3 things that Wegener used as evidence to support his theory?
What are landforms, fossils, and climate
300
Oceanic crust goes back down to the mantle when it dives into a what?
What is a deep-ocean trench
300
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries
What are transform, divergent, and convergent
400
These 2 things increase as you get deeper into the Earth
What is temperature and pressure
400
What part of the mantle do we find convection currents?
What is asthenosphere
400
How long ago did Wegener believe Pangaea existed?
What is about 300 million years ago
400
The process of oceanic crust going back into the mantle is called?
What is subduction
400
2 part question...a divergent boundary in the ocean is what? and on land is what?
What is in the ocean is part of the mid ocean ridge, and on land is a rift valley
500
What are the two types of crust, and what are they made of?
What is oceanic crust made of basalt, and continental crust made of granite.
500
Describe the process that creates a convection current
What is heat makes something less dense and it rises, it then cools off becoming less dense and sinks back down, this process repeats over and over.
500
Why didn't people believe Wegener?
What is he couldn't explain the forces that moved the continents
500
What are the 3 types of evidence Harry Hess used to prove his theory of Sea Floor Spreading
What are molten rock material, magnetic stripes in rock, and drilling samples
500
What type of boundary is present in California that creates a lot of earthquakes, and what is the name of the fault there?
What is a transform boundary and the San Andreas Fault
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