Heat Transfer
What are the 3 forms of heat transfer?
Conduction, Convection & Radiation
Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by what process?
Weathering
What is the outermost layer of Earth that we walk on
The crust
The lithosphere is broken into sections called _________.
Tectonic Plates
Give one example of a physical change and one example of a chemical change.
Answers will vary.
The transfer of energy by touch is called what?
Conduction
Metamorphic rock is formed by what 2 things?
Heat and Pressure
List the compositional layers of earth.
Crust, Mantle and Core.
The Rocky Mountains were most likely formed by this plate boundary.
Convergent Boundary
What type of mineral testing uses scratching minerals on one another or other objects?
Hardness Testing
What type of heat transfer would the following be: The sidewalk becomes very hot during the afternoon when the sun is out.
Radiation
Igneous rock is formed when what cools?
Magma or lava
List the mechanical layers of Earth.
The lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core and Inner Core.
Earthquakes occur as result of _______________.
Transform OR Convergent Boundaries
Are metals ductile or brittle?
Are metals conductors or insulators?
Metals are ductile and conductors.
What type of heat transfer would the following be: An air conditioner cooling down a room.
Convection
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is called what?
The Rock Cycle
Earth’s solid inner core is surrounded by the hot, molten metal of which layer?
The outer core
List at least 3 major tectonic plates that are located next to the North American Plate.
The Pacific plate, the Eurasian plate, the African plate and the South American plate.
Choose the following that are ELEMENTS only:
-Fe2
-NaCl
-H2O
-He
-O
-BrNH
-Fe2
-He
-O
Explain how heat is transferred when you add ice to a glass of lemonade.
The lemonade warms up the ice causing it to melt. Heat is transferred from the lemonade to the ice.
In which type of rock can fossils be found?
Only sedimentary
The Inner Core is what state of matter? The Outer Core is what state of matter?
Inner Core=Solid
Outer Core=Liquid
Mid ocean ridges and sea floor spreading are a result of this plate boundary.
Divergent Boundary
Calculate the density of an object that has a mass of 200 grams and a volume of 10 cubic centimeters.
20 g/cm3