Earth's Interior

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

The transfer of energy through direct contact of particles of matter.

This type of heat transfer is the transfer of energy through empty space.

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

True or False: The Pacific Ocean is shrinking

What type of heat transfer is shown in the picture?

A device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects and records the echoes _.

Any trace of an ancient organism preserved in a rock is called a

What type of heat transfer is shown in the picture?

At this type of boundary, two plates come together and collide.

As you go deeper in the Earth, both the _ and the _ increase.

According to Wilson's theory of plate tectonics, the Earth's plates float on top of the _.

At this type of plate boundary, two plates pull apart from each other or divide.

What layer of the Earth is number 4?

Earth's core is made up of _ and _.

As the temperature of a liquid/gases increases, it becomes _ dense causing it to _.

The edge of plates meet at lines called _.

As the temperature of a liquid/gas decreases, it becomes _ dense and causes it to _.

What type of heat transfer is shown in the picture?

Why was Alfred Wegener's theory rejected?

Earthquakes occur at _ plate boundaries.

Geologists used 2 types of evidence to study Earth's interior. 1 piece of DIRECT evidence is _.

The Continental Drift Theory states that all of the continents were once joined together.

Geologists used 2 types of evidence to study Earth's interior. 1 piece of INDIRECT evidence is _.

What layer of the Earth is number 3?

Mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys form at _ plate boundaries

This is the uppermost part of the mantle that is rigid and attached to the crust.

This is an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.

What layer of the Earth is number 1?

At which plate boundary is crust neither created nor destroyed?

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

True or False: The Atlantic Ocean is shrinking.

The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is called

This is a canyon where oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.

What layer of the Earth is number 2?

At this type of plate boundary, plates slide past each other in the opposite directions.

This type of heat transfer occurs when fluid is heated.

What re the three types of evidence Alfred Wegener used to try and prove his theory correct?

Deep ocean trenches, mountains, and islands form at _ plate boundaries.

What is the heat source that causes convection currents in the Earth's mantle?

All the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called

What type of plate boundary is shown in the picture?

The process in which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle.

The lithosphere is broken into separate sections called

This layer of the mantle is soft and is comparable to tar.

A _ is a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.