Earth Layers and Tectonic Plates
List the 5 layers of earth and the state of matter they are in (full words, no abbreviations)
Crust
Upper Mantle
Lower Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Describe the movement of convergent boundaries
plates mvoe towards each other
describe the movement of divergent boundaries
plates move away from each other
describe the movement of divergent boundaries
plates slide past each other in opposite directions
(must say in opposite directions)
Identify a property of a base
Tastes bitter
Feels soapy to touch
Reacts with acids
Changes litmus paper to blue
Corrosive2
Conducts electricity
List the 7 Major Tectonic Plates (you do not have to write plate after each plate name)
North American Plate
Pacific Plate
Eurasian Plate
African Plate
South American Plate
Australian Plate
Antarctic Plate
Identify the type of geological feature formed at a collision zone
Mountain ranges
Identify the type of geological feature formed when water fills cracks in the Earth’s crust
Inland seas
Identify the type of geological event that occurs at transform boundaries
earthquakes
!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
identify where acids would be located on a ph scale (the numbers)
0-6
Identify the piece of evidence that the following description is describing:
New crust is formed on the ocean floor where tectonic plates moved away from one another. The magma reaches the surface, cools down, and forms new crust.
Seafloor spreading
identify the two types of convergent boundaries occuring in a subduction zone
Oceanic - continental
Oceanic - oceanic
The East Pacific Rise is a product of the Pacific Plate moving away from the Nazca and Cocos Plates.
Identify the type of divergent boundary that would occur
oceanic - oceanic
Identify the name of the geological feature formed by squeezing or stretching the Earth’s crust.
faults
Identify the type of energy reaction that would have a high starting energy and low final energy after being realsed.
exothermic reaction
List the 3 factors a scientific idea is based on
evidence, observation and experiments
identify the type of crust that subducts under another crust to form oceanic trenches and why
oceanic crust as it is more dense
how long does it take for rift valleys to turn into inland seas
millions of years
Describe how earthquakes occur
release of built up tension/energy/pressure/friction between two interaction plates
Identify the type of radiation that occurs when an unstable nucleus releases a pair of protons and a pair of neutrons
Alpha
Particles in the earths mantle (magma) gain heat energy when being heated from the outer core and start to rise (convection currents).
Describe why the particles rise in reference to the volume and density.
Increase in volume, decrease in density
Describe how island arcs are formed from convergent boundaries. (include the type of crusts and their movement)
The denser, older oceanic crust subducts underneath the younger, less dense oceanic crust.
describe what happens to the earths crust during seafloor spreading
As new crust forms, older crust is pushed further away from the crack in the earth
(must mention older crust move away)
Transform boundaries are less common than convergent or divergent boundaries, however the damages they cause can be just as devastating.
Describe what happens when a large earthquake occurs
the larger the energy is released the larger the earthquake
describe the difference between isotopes and elements
isotopes are variations of elements with the same atomic number but different atomic mass
or
the same number of porotns and electrons but a different amount of neutrons