Heat Transfer
What is conduction?
Thermal energy transfer by direct contact
What is a conductor?
Substances that thermal energy can easily move through
What is the theory called that explains why continents slowly drifted away from one another?
Continental drift
What boundary has plates moving TOWARDS each other?
Convergent
What is the sudden shaking of the ground caused by the rapid release of energy?
An earthquake
What is convection
thermal energy transfer in which currents carry thermal energy from one part of the fluid/air to another
What is a insulator?
Substances that thermal energy cannot move through
What is a supercontinent? (100 points)
What is the name of the supercontinent we learned about? (100 points)
-One giant landform/continent, containing most/all of earth's continents
-Pangea
What boundary has plates moving AWAY from each other?
Divergent
What what boundaries do earthquakes occur at?
All 3: convergent, divergent, and transform
What is radiation?
Ocean currents are an example of what type of heat transfer?
Convection
What are the preserved remains and/or traces of ancient life?
Fossils
What boundary has plates SLIDING pass one another?
Transform
Subductions zones can create what 3 landforms?
(100 points for each correct)
Mountains, volcanoes, and/or trenches
You place an ice cube on top of a park bench that has been in the sun all day and the ice cube starts to melt. What 2 types of thermal energy transfer is melting the ice cube? (200 points each)
Conduction (ice cube directly contacting the bench)
Radiation (the bench getting heated by the sun)
What is thermal equilibrium?
a state in which all parts of a system are the same temperature
That undisturbed layered rock, the oldest layers are at the bottom and the youngest layers are at the top
What is the driving force to make tectonic plates move?
Convection currents in Earth's mantle
What is created when two continental plates converge?
Mountains
You go swimming and notice that the water in the shade is much colder than the water in the sun. What thermal energy transfer is causing that change in temperature?
Radiation
When an object gains thermal energy what happens to the particles? (speed and size)
The increase speed and expand
According to the Law of Superposition layer the following from top to bottom:
-Shale is younger than Limestone
-Sandstone is older than Limestone
Shale
Limestone
Sandstone
If two oceanic plates converge, and one plate subducts beneath another; which one subducts? (less dense or more dense plate)
Dense= weight/heaviness
The more dense plate subducts
Mid-ocean ridge