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Earth's Interior
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A break in Earth's Crust where rocks have slipped past each other is called a.... | Fault |
| Continental Crust consists mainly of the rock... | Granite |
| Scientists rejected Wegener's theory because he could not... | Explain what force pushes or pulls continents |
| Subduction is... | The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath trenches |
| Earth's lithosphere is broken into separate sections called.. | Plates |
| Scientists who study the forces that make and shape the planet Earth are called.... | Geologists |
| In the Convection Current of a pan of soup, the cooler, denser fluid... | Sinks to the bottom |
| The transfer of energy through space is called.... | Radiation |
| Who first proposed the theory of Continental Drift? | Alfred Wegener |
| What erupts through the valley of the mid-ocean ridge? | Molten Material |
| Heat transfer by the movement of a heated fluid is called..... | Convection Current |
| A ______________ Boundary is a place where two place where two plates slip past each other. | Transform |
| The ____________is the part of the Mantle that can bend like plastic | Asthenospere |
| The Process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is.... | Sea-floor Spreading |
| Fossils of tropical plants found on a island in the the Artic Ocean are evidence for Wengener's Hypothesis of.... | Continental Drift |
| A rift valley forms along a CONVERGENT boundary on land. | False; Divergent |
| The supercontinent that began to break apart about 225 million years ago is called ANTARCTICA | False; Pangea |
| An Oceanic Crust moves away from the MID-OCEAN RIDGE, it cools and becomes more dense | True |
| DENSITY is a measure of how much mass there is in there is in volume of a substance. | True |
| The lithosphere includes all of the CORE and part of the mantle. | False; Crust |
| Name each of the layers in order, from outermost to innermost | Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core |
| The Bottom of the Lithosphere is ... | Between the Crust and the Mantle |
| What is the MAJOR difference between the Outer Core and Inner Core? | The Inner Core is SOLID METAL and the Outer Core is Liquid |
| Oceanic Crust | The bottom of the ocean floor |
| Radiation | Is the direct transfer of energy of electromagnetic waves |
| Conduction | The direct transfer of heat from 1 substances that it is touching |
| Convection Currents | The Transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid |
| Density | Is a measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substace |
| Plate | A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, caring pieces of continental and oceanic crust. |
| Pangaea | The name of a single landmass the broke apart 200 years ago and gave rise to today's continents |
| Mid - Ocean Ridge | An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced. |
| Sonar | Is a device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects and then records the echoes of these sound waves. |
| Subduction | The process by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trenches and back into the Mantle is called Subduction. |
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