Concepts & Other bits
When earthquakes happen, the ___________ arrive first.
What is divergent?
Name the layers of the earth in order moving from outward towards the middle.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
This is Ms. B's _______ year at PVHS.
What is 1st?
Earth formed this long ago.
What is 4.6 billion years?
This type of boundary can cause earthquakes.
What is transform?
This process in the mantle transfers heat from Earth's core to the surface.
What is convection?
Ms. B's favorite animal.
What is a blue whale?
What happens to the kinetic energy of particles as temperature is increased?
What is increases?
The type of boundary that can form mountain ranges.
What is convergent?
Which layer of the Earth is the most dense?
What is the Inner Core?
What Ms. B's husband does for one of his jobs.
What is make video games (or game designer)?
The physical property of matter that explains why the crust is above the mantle.
What is density?
The cause of movement of earth's plates.
What is convection in the mantle?
The density ranges of the crust and mantle, respectively.
What is 2.2-2.9 g/cm3 and 3.4-5.6 g/cm3?
Ms. B's dog's name
Ducky
The movement of liquid iron nickel in the Earth's outer core is responsible for creating ____________.
What is Earth's magnetic field?
The movement of rigid lithospheric plates on Earth's surface over the aesthenosphere, that cycles matter and energy between Earth's surface and interior.
What is plate tectonics?
The core heats the mantle through this process.
What is conduction?
Another job Ms. B has had prior to being a teacher.
What is baker, taxidermist, camp director, tree counter?