Earth's Interior
Convection in the mantle
Continental Drift
100
The outer core is solid or liquid?
What is liquid
100
What are the three types of heat transfer.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation.
100
______ _______ was a German scientist who hypothesized continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener
200
What are the layers of the Earth front top to bottom?
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and the inner core.
200
When liquid is heated its density?
What is decreases
200
______ means ''all lands''
What is pangaea
300
What are the layers of the mantle?
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, and lower mantle
300
Heat from the core and mantle causes?
What is convection currents
300
Most scientist rejected his idea because he ________________________________
Didn't have enough information
400
As you journey down to the center of the Earth pressure and temperature?
What is increase
400
convection in the mantle is responsible for?
What is plate tectonics
400
Pangaea existed how many years ago?
What is 300 million years ago
500
What are the two types of evidence that scientists use to learn about Earth's interior?
What is direct evidence (rock samples) and indirect (seismic waves)
500
Convection in the outer core is responsible for?
What is magnetic field
500
What evidence did Wegener us to find continental drift
What is landforms