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Avery Prey EES 2.1
EES 2.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Earthquakes | The sudden shaking of the Earth's surface caused by the release of energy in the Earth's crust and breaking of rocks underground. |
| Geosphere | The geosphere is the solid part of Earth, extending from the surface down to the core. |
| Plate tectonics | Tectonic plates are the large, rocky pieces that make up Earth's crust, which float on the hot, molten mantle beneath them |
| Rock cycle | The rock cycle is the continuous process where rocks are formed, changed, destroyed, and reformed over time. |
| Convection currents | Convection currents are circular movements of fluids (liquids or gases) that occur due to differences in temperature. |
| Layers of the Earth | The Earth has four main layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. |
| Kinetic Energy | Kinetic energy is the energy of motion; it's the energy an object has because it is moving. |
| Gravity | Gravity is the fundamental force of attraction between all objects with mass or energy. |
| Dense | Dense means something is packed tightly or crowded together, |
| Layers of the sun | Layers of the SunThe Sun has two main groups of layers: the inner layers (core, radiative zone, and convection zone) and the outer layers (photosphere, chromosphere, and corona). |
| Fault line | a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault |
| Volcano | A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust where molten rock, ash, and gas escape from below the surface. |
| seismograph | an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration. |
| Molecules | an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration. |
| Magnitude | Magnitude is the size or extent of something, representing its quantity, length, or importance |
| Pangea | Pangea was a supercontinent that existed approximately 320 to 195 million years ago, where all the modern continents were joined together into one giant landmass |
| Athenosphere | The asthenosphere is a semi-fluid, ductile layer of the Earth's upper mantle, located directly beneath the rigid lithosphere. |
| Molten | liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted |
| Thermal energy | Thermal energy is the total kinetic energy of all the atoms and molecules within an object or system. It is the energy of the random motion of these particles, which increases as they vibrate and move faster, causing the object's temperature to rise. |
| Divergent | "divergent" generally means to move apart or differ from a common point. |
| Lithosphere | The lithosphere is the rigid, outer layer of Earth, consisting of the crust and the brittle upper part of the mantle. |
| Crust | A crust is the hard, outer layer of something, |
| Contients | A continent is a very large, continuous mass of land on Earth, often defined by convention and separated from other landmasses by oceans. |
| Alfred Wegnar | Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist and geophysicist best known for developing the theory of continental drift. |
| Fossils | A fossil is any preserved evidence of a once-living organism, such as a bone, shell, or imprint, that has been preserved in rock for a long period. |
| Continental drift | Continental drift is the theory that the Earth's continents have moved over geological time, slowly shifting from their past positions, which were once joined together in a single landmass. |
| Thermal | |
| Mantle | |
| Seismic waves | |
| Outer Core | |
| Transform Boundary | |
| Unstable isotopes | |
| Richter Scale | |
| Volcanism | |
| Seafloor spreading | |
| S waves | |
| ridge | |
| isotopes | |
| convection | |
| Asthenosphere | |
| Density | |
| Divergent boundary | |
| Subduction | |
| Mantle convection | |
| Tsunamis | |
| Fault lines | |
| Lava | |
| Ductile | |
| Magnitude | |
| Trench | |
| Plume | |
| Half-life | |
| Thermal Convection | |
| Tectonic Plates | |
| Radioactivity | |
| Radioactive decay | |
| Inner core | |
| Convergent Boundary | |
| Mountain formation | |
| seismograph | |
| epicenter | |
| P waves | |
| Slab pull | |
| Rift |
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