Earth's Layers, Heat Transfer, Continental Drift, and Plate Boundaries

Question 1

Geologists use DIRECT EVIDENCE from what to learn about the inner core?

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rock samples

Question 2

You touch a hot bowl of soup out of the microwave. This is an example of

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conduction heat transfer

Question 3

The Earth is composed of how many main layers?

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4

Question 4

The layer of Earth that is under the greatest pressure is the

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inner core.

Question 5

Most geologists think the movement of the plates is caused by

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convection currents in the mantle.

Question 6

What is the name of the supercontinent believed to have existed about 300 million years ago?

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Pangaea

Question 7

The layer that is a dense ball of solid metal is the

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inner core

Question 8

The type of heat transfer by movement of currents within a liquid is called

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convection

Question 9

Which layer is less rigid and bends like road tar?

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asthenosphere

Question 10

What type of heat transfer is an example of what happens when the sun warms your face?

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radiation

Question 11

Earthquakes are MOST common at which boundary?

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transform

Question 12

The rigid layer made up of both the crust and the upper mantle is the

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lithosphere

Question 13

What geologic feature is formed at divergent boundaries?

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mid-ocean ridge

Question 14

A rfit valley is a deep valley that forms when two plates move apart. This would happen at

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a divergent boundary.

Question 15

INDIRECT EVIDENCE comes from what that is used to learn about the inner core?

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seismic waves

Question 16

In sea-floor spreading, magma erupts from the mantle and is deposited

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along mid-ocean ridges.

Question 17

The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift is

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Alfred Wegener

Question 18

The type of heat transfer within a material or between materials that are touching is called

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conduction

Question 19

When oceanic crust and continental crust collide at a convergent boundary, what happens?

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the oceanic crust subducts under the continental crust

Question 20

A collision between two continental crusts at a convergent boundary would create what landform?

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mountain range

Question 21

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called

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sea-floor spreading.

Question 22

Oceanic crust is made up of rocks such as

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basalt

Question 23

Along the mid-ocean ridge, rock is newest

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closest to the mid-ocean ridge.

Question 24

Scientists determined the age of rock in deposits from mid-ocean ridges by

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drilling the ocean floor.

Question 25

Continental crust is made up of rock such as

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granite

Question 26

The layer of solid rock that includes both dry land and the ocean floor is called the

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crust

Question 27

Which of the following types of evidence is NOT used to support the continental drift theory?

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exhaust fumes

Question 28

Which of the following is not a type of plate boundary?

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insurgent

Question 29

What is the type of heat transfer of energy through empty space?

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radiation

Question 30

Convection currents are located in which layer of the Earth?

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asthensphere

Question 31

What happens to the pressure as you move from the surface to the center of the Earth?

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increases

Question 32

An exmple of convection currents is

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soup heating up on the stove

Earth's Layers, Heat Transfer, Continental Drift, and Plate Boundaries

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Earth's Layers, Heat Transfer, Continental Drift, and Plate Boundaries

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