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What is the direct transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another?
Conduction
What is density?
The amount of mass a substance has in a given volume.
Which layer of the earth is a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel?
Inner Core
What does pressure do to the inner core?
Makes it solid
Which Crust is composed mostly of granite?
Continental Crust
What is usually a light-colored igneous rock that can be found in the continental crust?
Granite
Which crust is composed mostly of basalt?
Oceanic Crust
______ is the force exerted on a surface divided by the total area over which the force exerted.
Pressure
Which layer of the earth has rocks that will bend?
Asthenosphere
What is the layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface?
Crust
What is the layer of earth that is made of hot, solid material and between the crust and the core?
Mantle
Which layer of the earth is made of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core?
Outer Core
Which of earth's layers flows like a liquid but made of a solid?
Mantle
What is the outer core composed of?
liquid iron and nickel
Which layer of the earth has rocks that will crack and break easily?
Lithosphere
Why will rocks bend in the Athenosphere?
Due to pressure and heat
What is a cause of convection currents in the mantle?
heat from the core
What is the movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another?
Convection Current
What is a dark, dense, igneous rock with a fine texture, and can be found in the oceanic crust?
Basalt
As you get further away from the core what happens to the temperature?
It decreases the further you get from the core.