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7th Science - Ch 1
Inside Earth - Plate Tectonics retake
Question | Answer |
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A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a... | mountain range |
According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, | the continents were once joined together in a single land mass. |
Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because... | Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents. |
Geologists obtain indirect evidence about Earth's interior by.. | recording and studying seismic waves. |
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of... | plate tectonics |
Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support this continental drift hypothesis - evidence from landforms; evidence from fossils, evidence from human remains? | evidence from human remains |
A place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a... | transform boundary. |
What is Pangaea? | the name of the supercontintent that existed millions of years ago. |
Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's plates is caused by... | convection currents in the mantle. |
Using data from seismic waves, geologists have learned that Earth's interior is made up of several... | layers |
Holes drilled several kilometers into Earth's crust provide direct evidence about Earth's interior in the form of... | rock samples. |
Mid-ocean ridges are... | found in all of Earth's oceans. |
Earth's inner core is... | a dense ball of solid metal. |
Old oceanic crust is more dense than new oceanic crust because it is... | cool. |
What technology did scientists use in the mid-1900's to map the mid-ocean ridge? | sonar |
When you touch a hot pot or pan, energy moves from the pot to your hand. This is called... | heat transfer |
Earth's mantle is... | a layer of hot rock. |
Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a... | fossil. |
Earth's magnetic field results form movements in the... | mantle. |
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as... | subduction. |
The transfer of energy through empty space is called... | radiation. |
In sea-floor spreading molten material rises from the mantle and erupts... | along mid-ocean ridges. |
When the heat source is removed from a fluid, convection currents in the fluid will... | eventually stop |
What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layer? | crust, mantle, outer core, inner core |
How did scientist discover that rocks farther away from the mid-ocean ridge were older than those near it? | by determining the age of rock samples obtained by drilling on the sea floor |
The place where two plates come together is known as a... | convergent boundary. |
What did scientists in a submersible see when they observed the mid-ocean ridge? | rocks formed by the rapid hardening of molten material |
Scientists think that convection currents flow in Earth's... | mantle. |
A rift valley forms at a... | divergent plate boundary |
Heat transfer within a fluid takes place by... | convection currents. |