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Inside Earth, Ch. 1.
Inside Earth, Chapter 1 StudyStack
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| An expert in geology, the study of what the Earth is made of and how it was formed. | Geologist |
| A natural solid mineral that forms from earth's crust. | Rock |
| The study of the rocks that make up earth. | Geology |
| The forces that make mountains and land. | Constructive Forces |
| Forces that destroy land and rocks. | Destructive Forces |
| A named section of land on earth. | Continent |
| A vibration caused by an earthquake. | Seismic Wave |
| A force made by gravity and the weight above you. | Pressure |
| The top most layer and the smallest layer of earth. | Crust |
| A dense and dark rock found in earth's crust. | Basalt |
| An igneous white rock found very frequently in the continental crust. | Granite |
| The middle layer of earth. And the biggest layer of earth. | Mantle |
| The middle of the upper between earth's crust and mantle. | Lithosphere |
| The layer of mantle under the lithosphere. | Asthenosphere |
| The liquid layer of metals that surround the inner core. | Outer Core |
| The solid sphere of metals that are in the middle of earth. | Inner Core |
| Heat traveling through objects from a warm object to make a cool object warm. | Heat Transfer |
| Heat moving through empty space. | Radiation |
| Heat transfer by direct contact. | Conduction |
| Heat transfer by hot liquid. | Convection |
| Heat moving through fluid metal. | Convection Currents |
| The mass of any given space. | Density |
| A theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past. | Continental Drift |
| An extremely large landmass when all continents were connected together. | Pangea |
| The imprint or hardened remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago. | Fossil |
| A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle. | Deep-ocean Trench |
| Giant undersea mountain range extending around the world like the seams of a baseball. | Mid-ocean Ridge |
| A system that uses the reflection of underwater sound waves to detect objects. | Sonar |
| The idea that the middle of the ocean is spreading apart, moving very slowly in opposite directions. | Sea-floor Spreading |
| Process in which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent boundary. | Subduction |
| A slab of Earth's lithosphere that can move around on the planet's surface. | Plate |
| A well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations about a particular scientific question. | Scientific Theory |
| The movement of the earth’s upper mantle and crust. | Plate Tectonics |
| A break in Earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves toward, away from, or past another. | Fault |
| Two plates sliding horizontally past each other. | Transform boundary |
| Place where two of Earth's tectonic plates are moving apart | Divergant Boundary |
| A deep valley that forms when two plates drift apart. | Rift Valley |
| Convergent Boundary | A boundary between lithospheric plates where the plates move toward one another and one plate is recycled into the mantle. |
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