Inside Earth Lesson 2/3 Assessment

When you touch a hot pot, energy moves from the pot to your hand. This is called...

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a ...

The movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object is called ...

Because Wegener could not identify the cause of continental drift, most geologists __ his idea

When the heat source is removed from a fluid, convection currents will eventually...

To support his theory of continental drift, Wegener provided what 3 pieces of evidence?

The transfer of energy through empty space is called

Mantle material rises in convection currents because heated materials become _______ dense

<p>What is the name of the supercontinent that existed over millions of years ago ...</p>

Heat transfer within a fluid takes place by...

Scientist think that convection currents flow in the Earth's ...

When you touch a hot plate, the transfer of heat from the plate to your hand is called ...

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, the ____ were once joined together.

The hypothesis of _  __ was that all continents were once joined together in a single landmass.

Mountains usually occur in narrow bands along the edges of ... 

<p>Heat from the ________ and the mantle itself causes convection currents in the mantle.</p>

The transfer of heat by the movement of heated fluid is called ...

The energy from the sun that warms your face is transferred by a process called ...

In the mantle, heat is transferred as soft rock flows slowly in cycles known as ...

Who believed that the continents were once joined together in one landmass called Pangaea?