Transcript Earth`s Interior

Earth’s
Interior
Sea-floor
spreading
Plate Tectonics
Continental
Drift
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Earth’s Interior
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What are the interior layers of the
Earth?
CRUST, MANTLE, OUTER CORE,
INNER CORE
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What are the two types of crust?
Oceanic Crust and Continental Crust
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Which layer of Earth is composed of
basalt?
Oceanic Crust
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Which layer of the Earth is liquid and
composed of Ni and Fe?
OUTER CORE
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What happens when you move
deeper into the Earth’s interior?
THE PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE
BOTH INCREASE
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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What does sea-floor spreading
mean?
A PROCESS WHERE NEW OCEAN
FLOOR IS MADE
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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What is the name of the area where
new ocean floor is created?
MID OCEAN RIDGE
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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What comes out of the Earth during
sea-floor spreading?
MOLTEN MATERIAL/MAGMA
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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What occurs to the oceanic crust
when it comes into contact with
the continental crust?
SUBDUCTION OCCURS
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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Why is the Pacific Ocean shrinking?
THERE ARE MANY MORE DEEP
OCEAN TRENCHES WHERE OCEAN
FLOOR IS LOST FASTER THAN CAN
BE MADE.
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Plate Tectonics
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What is the name used to describe
where two plates meet?
PLATE BOUNDARIES
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Plate Tectonics
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What is this kind of plate boundary
where the plates move in opposite
directions and what happens here?
TRANSFORM BOUNDARY WHERE
EARTHQUAKES OCCUR
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What moves the lithosphere plates?
CONVECTION CURRENTS
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Why are there so many volcanoes
around the Pacific Ocean?
Because of all the plate boundaries
where magma has risen to the
surface.
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Plate Tectonics
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What process occurs when the
oceanic plate comes into contact
with another oceanic plate or a
continental plate?
SUBDUCTION OCCURS
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Continental Drift
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What does continental drift mean?
THE CONTINENTS HAVE DRIFTED
APART OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS
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Who came up with the theory of
continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
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What was the name of the large landmass that
was composed of all the continents put
together?
PANGAEA
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Was the theory of Continental Drift
accepted by other scientists when
it was proposed?
NO, THE OTHER SCIENTISTS DID
NOT BELIEVE THE THEORY WAS
TRUE
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What were the different types of
evidence to support Continental
Drift?
FOSSILS, GLACIERS, AND FITTING
TOGETHER LIKE PIECES OF A
PUZZLE
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Vocab
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What is a deep canyon in the ocean
floor?
TRENCH
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What are the three types of heat
transfer?
CONVECTION, CONDUCTION, AND
RADIATION
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What is the transition layer between
the outer core and the
asthenosphere?
MESOSPHERE
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What is the transfer of thermal
energy by movement of a fluid?
CONVENCTION
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What is a substance that has the
properties of a solid, but has the
ability to flow?
PLASTICITY
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Potpourri
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What is the type of rock that
continental plates contain?
GRANITE
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What does the mantle contain?
LITHOSPHERE AND
ASTHENOSPHERE
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True or False
The continental crust is thinner and
denser than the oceanic crust.
FALSE
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What is the process called when two
continental plate boundaries meet?
FOLDING
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Divergent boundaries is to sea-floor
spreading as Transform boundary
is to ________?
SHEARING
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