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Layers of the Earth
Heat Transfer
Plate Tectonics-1
Plate Tectonics-2
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Which layer of the Earth is the thickest?
What is the mantle
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What are the 3 types of heat transfer?
What is radiation, convection, conduction
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What is Pangea?
What is the name of the super continent that existed million of years ago
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When two plate move away from each other a _______ boundary occurs.
What is divergent
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What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?
What is the crust
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What are the 4 layers of the Earth?
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust
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What is the transfer of heat from one material to another?
What is conduction
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A place where plate slip passed each other, moving in opposite directions is known as a...
What is transform boundary.
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When two plated move toward each other a __________ boundary occurs
What is convergent
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What is the inner core made of?
What is nickle and iron (solid)
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What is the upper most part of the mantle and the crust part of?
What is the lithosphere
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What is the transfer of heat through space?
What is radiation
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Seafloor spreading cause molten material to rise from the mantle. What does this form?
What is new oceanic crust
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When two continental plates diverge _________ are created.
What is rift valleys.
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Oceanic crust is made of _________ while continental crust is made of _________.
What is the Basalt; Granite
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The lower part of the upper mantle is called...
What is the asthenosphere.
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What is the transfer of heat through fluids?
What is convection
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A continental and an oceanic convergent boundary causes what to form?
What is mountains and volcanoes
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Two converging continental plates causes what to form?
What is mountains
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Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core
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The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
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Heat from the core of the Earth, and the mantle itself causes what to occur in the mantle?
What is a convection current
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Two divergent oceanic plates causes this
What is seafloor spreading
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The two types of conversion boundaries are
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
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Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
What is how the continents moved