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Inside Earth Test 1
Inside Earth Vocabulary Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Continental Drift | Theory by Alfred Wegener |
| Pangaea | Means "all lands" |
| Glossopteris | Fern like fossil |
| Lithosphere | Layer of rigid or hard rock |
| Asthenosphere | Layer of soft rock |
| Plate Tectonics | Theory by J Tuzo Wilson |
| Subduction | When one plate dives under another |
| Rift Valley | Deep valley that forms when two plates move apart on land |
| Deep Sea Trench | Deep valley in the ocean where the crust sinks towards the mantle |
| Mid-Ocean Ridge | Undersea mountain made by a divergent boundary |
| Transform Plate Boundary | When two plates are sliding past each other, opposite directions. |
| Convergent Plate Boundary | When two plates go closer to each other. |
| Divergent Plate Boundary | When two plates go far away from each other. |
| Seafloor Spreading | When new crust is made on the ocean floor due to a divergent boundary. |
| Constructive Force | Shapes the surface by building mountains and landmasses. |
| Destructive Force | Those that slowly wear away mountains and, eventually, every other feature on the surface. |
| Continents | Are seven landmasses. |
| Seismic Wave | A vibration that travels through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake. |
| S wave | A type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down or side to side. |
| Temperature | As you travel down deep into the earth, this starts to increase. |
| Pressure | As you travel deep into the earth, this also starts to increase. |
| Magma | The molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle. |
| Granite | A usually light-colored rock that is found in continental crust. |
| Basalt | A dark, dense, igneous rock with a fine texture, found in oceanic crust. |
| Crust | The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface. |
| Earthquake | The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface. |
| Geology | The study of planet Earth. |
| Hot Spot | An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it. |
| Igneous Rock | A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface. |
| Lava | Liquid magma that reaches the surface; also the rock formed when liquid lava hardens. |
| Mantle | The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core. |
| Inner Core | A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel in the center of Earth. |
| Outer Core | A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth. |
| P wave | A type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground. |
| Plate | A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust. |
| Rock | The materials that forms Earth's hard surface. |
| Sedimentary Rock | A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks of the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together. |
| Density | A me sure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance. |
| Conduction | Heat transfer by direct contact of particles of matter. |
| Convection | Heat transfer by the movement of a heated fluid. |
| Convection Current | The flow that transfers heat within a fluid. |
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