Earths layers
What are the main layers of the earth?
crust, Mantle, Outer and inner core
What was the name of the huge landmass that once existed?
PANGEA
What is a rock?
one or more mineral/s
What is thermal energy?
The transfer of heat.
Give an example of electrical to thermal energy?
Power outlet- toaster
What layers are made of solid?
crust, mantle, and inner core.
What are the three types of boundary movements
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What are the tree types of rocks?
igneous
metamorphic
sedimentary
Which of the following is conduction?
1. a person placing their hands over a warm fire
2. Touching the stove
3. Microwaving a burrito
2. Touching the stove
Name 4 types of forms of energy and if they belong to kinetic or potential energy
All kinetic
Mechanical, light, sound, electrical, thermal energy.
Why is the inner layer solid and not liquid?
Because of its intense pressure it prevents it from melting.
Which type of movement slides and what does it create?
Transform
Creates earthquakes
Granite is a rock that has formed from the cooling, solidification and crystallization of magma beneath the earths surface. What type of rock is it?
Igneous
Lying out in the sun is considered?
What is the law of conservation
Energy CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED but it can change from one form to another
What are the bottom two layers composed of? and which one is solid and which one is liquid?
nickel and iron
Inner-solid
outer-liquid
Ocean-ocean (volcanoes)
Continent-continent (Mountains)
Ocean-continent (Volcanoes and mountains)
What rock is created using sediments
Sedimentary
Why are heat and temperature different?
Heat is always hot
temperature can vary from hot to cold
What energy source is nonrenewable and causes pollution
Fossil Fuels
What does the lithosphere consist of?
The crust and the upper mantle.
Name all 7 major plate tectonics
What is internal body temperature
Name all rocks and what they are made of?
Metamorphic- heat and pressure
Igneous- heating and cooling of magma/lava
Sedimentary - sediments that are compacted and cemented
Name the three types of heat transfer and explain
conduction- two objects touching
convection- circulation of air or water
radiation heat carried through waves
What energy resource uses the splitting of atoms?
what type of atoms is it?
and what is released?
Nuclear
Uranium
Energy