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Chapter 1 Review of Concepts Earth's Interior
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Wegener also pieced together evidence from __________ to show that continents once fit together
The age and type of rock in mountain ranges
coastlines that roughly fit together
All of these are evidence
Landforms like mountain ranges
2
The scientist who first proposed the hypothesis of continental drift was
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Isaac Newton
Bill Nye
Alfred Wegner
3
What substances must the Earths core be composed of to create its magnetic field?
Potassium and Sulfur
Aluminum and Copper
Carbon and Silicon
Iron and Nickel
4
A model that represents earth's interior and broken crust is
A basketball
An Egg
A frisbee
An apple
5
The movement of heated material upward and cool material downward is is called
Coriolis Force
Conduction
Contraction
Convection
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Earth's Lithosphere is broken up into pieces called _______?
mesas
mountains and basins
rafts
plates
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What scientists know comes from Direct and Indirect Evidence. An example of direct evidence is
gut feeling you are correct
Rock Samples
sound waves
Seismic Waves
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A 60 Mile thick region of the Interior of Earth, that is made of upper mantle and crust is
Asthenoshpere
Mantle
Lithosphere
Crust
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Earth's outer core is ______ iron & nickel
solid
cooled
molten
very dense and hardened
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Scientists must ____ the earths layers because they cannot gather _____ from inside the earth
design, information
infer, rock samples
build, material
guess, evidence
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Earth can be simplified as 4 main Layers. They are in Order:
Outer Core, Inner Core, Crust, Mantle
Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core, Mantle
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Mantle, Crust, Inner Core, Outer Core
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Wegener's theory was not accepted at first because
Too much Evidence
the people just did not care about continents moving
he could not explain how the continents moved
there were not that many scientist in geology to check
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The direct evidence that scientists have concerning the properties of the asthenosphere is
ontinents must be floating on a fluid of some kind
dense rock samples come from the asthenosphere
Lightweight crustal rocks are from the asthenosphere
heat of volcanic lava comes from the asthenosphere
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Which is Evidence Wegener used to support his hypothesis of continental drift?
Ocean Depths near continents
location of glaciers on earth today
Position of the oceans & seas on Earth
Fossil Evidence of a past climate change
15
The Theory that Earth's landmasses slowly move is called
the theory of relativity
the theory of pangea
the theory of evolution
The theory of continental drift
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Scientists explain the movement of Earths tectonic plates occurs
because of volcanoes and earthquakes
because the earth is spinning
because they are floating on the oceans
because heat creates convection currents in the mantle
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The difference between the Earths Lithosphere and Asthenosphere is that the Asthenosphere is
Soft enough to slowly flow
molten liquid rock
Hard and rigid
Rocky and wet
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The Earth's inner core and outer core differ. Evidence is provided by
Lava from volcanoes
surface rocks on the moon
Earth's oceans
Earth's magnetic field
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seismic waves allow scientists to infer the thickness of earth's internal layers because they
never enter earth's interior
change speed and direction as they pass through the earth
get bounced back immediately to the surface
reach to all parts of the earth
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An example of Indirect Evidence is...
gut feeling you are correct
Seismic Waves
Drill Cores
Rock Samples