Plate Tectonics and Interior of the Earth Review

Question 1

S and P waves travel faster when

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they go through more dense materials

Question 2

The highly pressurized super hot solid iron layer

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inner core

Question 3

What is the name of the Plate Tectonic Boundary in which the plates push together?

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Convergent

Question 4

The liquid iron super hot layer

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outer core

Question 5

Where the magnetic field of the earth originates

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core

Question 6

What is the name of the type of boundary when two plates pull apart?

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Divergent

Question 7

Where did the heat come from that is still inside the planet today?

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Collisions of smaller rocks that combined to make our planet, Movement of particles in our planet, Radioactive Decay

Question 8

If a seismic wave speeds up, you know it is now going through a layer that is...

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more dense

Question 9

The direction of our magnetic field was recorded in

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the hardened lava of new sea floor

Question 10

The process that causes layers to form in our planet as more dense particles sunk to the center

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Differentiation

Question 11

The physical layers - the solid but movable layer where the convection currents are found

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asthenosphere

Question 12

What is the name of the outer compositional layer made out of less dense materials?

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crust

Question 13

One way we know about the earth's internal layers is by analyzing shadow zones caused by

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seismic waves, p waves, s waves

Question 14

What do we see at transform boundaries?

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off set breaks with shallow earthquakes

Question 15

If an oceanic plate pushes into a continental plate, what will happen?

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The oceanic plate will push below the continental plate

Question 16

How do we know the outer core is liquid?

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The S waves won't go through it

Question 17

What is the boundary type called when two plates slide past each other?

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transform

Question 18

The physical layers - Outside solid breakable layer

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lithosphere

Question 19

What will a rift valley (divergent) eventually become?

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ocean

Question 20

What forms when two oceanic plates pull apart?

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Midocean Ridges (an under ocean mountain range)

Question 21

Why do the plates (made out of lithosphere) move?

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Convection currents in the mantle

Question 22

Our magnetic field is important because

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it protects us from the solar wind, without it we would have no atmosphere

Question 23

When a continental plate pushes into a continental plate, what happens?

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The plate buckles forming mountains

Question 24

What forms when two continental plates pull apart?

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Rift Valley

Question 25

Travel through solids only

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S waves

Question 26

Travel fastest and are compression waves

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P waves

Question 27

As we go deeper into the center of the earth...

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the temp goes up and the pressure goes up.

Question 28

Bend when go through a different layer with different densities or materials

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both

Question 29

Travel like an "s" and arrive second

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S waves

Question 30

When the oceanic plate dives below the continental plate, what forms?

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trenches, volcanic mountains/islands, and deep earthquakes

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