Layers of Earth
What is the thinnest layer of earth?
The crust
What is heat transfer without contact?
Radiation.
What is Alfred's last name?
Wegener
Divergent boundaries move towards each other. True or false?
False. They go apart from each other cause sea-floor spreading.
What is Mr. Miller first name?
Nate or Nathaniel
What layer of earth contains the Lithosphere and the Asthenosphere?
The Mantle.
What type of heat is transferred by movement?
Convection.
Earth's ________ is slow and moving.
Lithosphere
Convergent boundaries create what?
Mountains.
What is the closet planet to the sun?
Mercury.
What is the hottest layer of earth?
The core.
What is direct contact heat transfer?
Conduction.
Alfred thought that the continents where always apart. True or False?
False. He thought they where together at one point.
Transform boundaries cause what two natural disasters?
Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions.
What continent is Italy in?
Europe.
The lithosphere is the inner or outer part of the mantle?
Outer.
What type of heat transfer is like making stirred tea and burning your tongue?
Conduction.
What is an explanation for Continental Drift?
Plate Tectonics.
Plate tectonics is what makes these boundaries. True or false?
Are armadillos mammals or reptiles?
Mammals.