Layers of the earth 1
What is the coolest layer of the earth
what is the crust
which layer is the hottest layer of earth
what is the Core
The core is mostly made of
what is nickel and iron
This is the name of the proposed "supercontinent" where all the earth's continents were once joined together.
What is Pangaea
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving apart from one another.
What is a divergent boundary?
This theory is the scientifically accepted theory of Universe formation.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
What are the two types of crusts?
Oceanic and continental
What layer of Earth do we live on?
what is the Crust
what are the layers of the earth in order from the surface?
what is the Crust, Mantle,Outer core, and Inner core
The name of the person who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
The Sun-centered solar system(Correct)
What is Heliocentric?
T/F: The temperature increases as you get deeper in the Earth
True
which layer is liquid and is beneath the mantle
what is the outer core
The inner core is solid because of
what is The pressure
Give the 3 pieces of evidence that Wegener gave for Continental Drift.
Fossils of the same type on different continents
Fossils of tropical plants in cold places
Marine fossils in the Himalayas (showing it was once under water)
Bonus: Land shapes of continents fit together
This type of plate boundary involves one plate sliding past another plate.
What is a Transform boundary?
The Earth-centered model of the solar system (incorrect)
What is Geocentric?
Which layer of Earth are you most likely to find the remains of organisms that lived in previous time periods?
Crust
What is the most dense layer of the Earth
Inner Core
What is the process in the mantle where hot material rises and as it cools it sinks to get warmed back up again?
Convection or Convection Currents
What is the reason that the Continental Drift Theory was criticized?
He did not explain HOW the continents moved.
This is the term for one plate being forced underneath another plate.
What is Subduction?
Describe the Big Bang Theory in your own words.
The theory that describes how the universe started from a small dense point and began rapidly expanding.
This is the thickest layer of Earth
Mantle
As you go deeper in the Earth what two things are increasing?
Temperature and Density
T/F: The lithosphere is made of tectonic plates
true
Describe the Continental Drift Theory in your own words.
The idea that all continents were once connected and have "drifted" to their current locations.
Tsunamis are caused by this geologic event.
What is an earthquake?
The person who proposed the Heliocentric Theory of the Solar System.
Copernicus