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science quiz on 6.1 and 6.2 about plate tectonics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| inner core | the very center of the earth |
| outer core | layer of liquid metals that surround the inner core |
| mantle | Earth's thickest layer that surrounds the outer core |
| crust | outermost layer of the earth |
| continental crust | continents and major islands |
| oceanic crust | all the ocean floors |
| lithosphere | earth's crust and the very top of the mantle |
| asthenosphere | a layer of hotter, softer rock in the upper mantle and the lithosphere sits on top of it |
| tectonic plates | the earth is broken up into many large and small plates of rock, the plates fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, makes up the surface of the earth |
| pangea | alfred wegener believed the continents had been joined in one supercontinent, pangea |
| the theory of plate tectonics | a theory stating that the Earth's lithosphere is broken into large moving pieces which carry both continental and oceanic crust |
| mid-ocean ridges | huge underwater mountain ranges |
| sea floor spreading | molten rock rises through cracks in the oceanic crust, it then cools to from new oceanic crust, the old crust is pulled away to make room for the new material |
| trenches | deep canyons-in the sea floor |
| convection | energy transfer by the movement of a material, hot soft rock heats up, becomes less dense and rises, at the surface the rock cools, becomes more dense and sinks |
| convection current | motion that transfers heat energy in the material |
| slab pull | occurs where gracity pulls the edge of a cool, dense plate into the asthenopshere |
| ridge push | occurs when material from a mid-ocean ridge slides downhill from the ridge |