Earth`s Interior
... 2. Identify the following: a. The only layer considered to be in liquid form: ____________________________ b. The thickest layer: ____________________________ c. The hottest layer and average temperature: ____________________________ d. The layer underneath the crust: ____________________________ e. ...
... 2. Identify the following: a. The only layer considered to be in liquid form: ____________________________ b. The thickest layer: ____________________________ c. The hottest layer and average temperature: ____________________________ d. The layer underneath the crust: ____________________________ e. ...
2nd_nine_weeks_exam_review_answers
... 5. Explain why Wegner’s ideas about continental drift were not accepted when he proposed the ideas in 1912. No one could explain how or why the continents had moved. 6. What is Pangaea? A large ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together 7. What do the plates of the lith ...
... 5. Explain why Wegner’s ideas about continental drift were not accepted when he proposed the ideas in 1912. No one could explain how or why the continents had moved. 6. What is Pangaea? A large ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together 7. What do the plates of the lith ...
Chapter 2 – Plate Tectonics
... Once world map started taking shape, scientists noticed that Africa and South America fit together like puzzle pieces. Coincidence? Alfred Wegener hypothesised that continents drifted apart. 1960’s geologists agree the continents do move. Plate tectonics ...
... Once world map started taking shape, scientists noticed that Africa and South America fit together like puzzle pieces. Coincidence? Alfred Wegener hypothesised that continents drifted apart. 1960’s geologists agree the continents do move. Plate tectonics ...
Slide 1
... Is unattached to the mantle, being suspended by the molten outer core. This field is also known as Earth's magnetic field, which is responsible for the functioning of mechanical and biological compasses. This field also causes a subtle jerking motion in the Earth's daily rotation. About 10% of this ...
... Is unattached to the mantle, being suspended by the molten outer core. This field is also known as Earth's magnetic field, which is responsible for the functioning of mechanical and biological compasses. This field also causes a subtle jerking motion in the Earth's daily rotation. About 10% of this ...
ANSWER KEY Name - Riverdale Middle School
... c.) What process is shown occurring at C, and why does it occur? Subduction, because the ocean floor is so much heavier (denser) than the land ...
... c.) What process is shown occurring at C, and why does it occur? Subduction, because the ocean floor is so much heavier (denser) than the land ...
Notes - Earth Science Rocks
... 2. Sliding Boundaries- as the name implies, this is where two plates are sliding past each other. The sliding movement often causes earthquakes to occur. This happens along faults. A fault is nothing more than a crack in the Earth’s crust where movement has occurred. Ex. North American Plate and the ...
... 2. Sliding Boundaries- as the name implies, this is where two plates are sliding past each other. The sliding movement often causes earthquakes to occur. This happens along faults. A fault is nothing more than a crack in the Earth’s crust where movement has occurred. Ex. North American Plate and the ...
Chapter 2
... slide past each other Faults are formed from this process Earthquakes are produced from this process ...
... slide past each other Faults are formed from this process Earthquakes are produced from this process ...
L8EarthAndFossils
... Extends from below the crust to 2900 km, and composed of silicate rocks that are also rich in iron and magnesium. The temperature increases from ~700°C at the upper boundary to >4,000°C at the lower boundary. Still, the mantle is almost exclusively solid, due to enormous lithostatic pressure. Still, ...
... Extends from below the crust to 2900 km, and composed of silicate rocks that are also rich in iron and magnesium. The temperature increases from ~700°C at the upper boundary to >4,000°C at the lower boundary. Still, the mantle is almost exclusively solid, due to enormous lithostatic pressure. Still, ...
Earth`s Interior
... • Size and shape of core can be determined because the paths of Pwaves can be accurately determined. ...
... • Size and shape of core can be determined because the paths of Pwaves can be accurately determined. ...
Vocabulary Word Definition Your Sketch/ memory aid 1. Inner core
... add a sketch. Add others after we discuss them in class. ...
... add a sketch. Add others after we discuss them in class. ...
Review Test June
... The formations have risen over eons as the result of the accumulation of minerals dissolved in hot water bubbling up through fissures known as thermal vents. They occur where plates in the Earth's crust collide and grind. In these black ocean depths, some of the pinnacles resemble stalagmites in a c ...
... The formations have risen over eons as the result of the accumulation of minerals dissolved in hot water bubbling up through fissures known as thermal vents. They occur where plates in the Earth's crust collide and grind. In these black ocean depths, some of the pinnacles resemble stalagmites in a c ...
Presentation
... The Earth is composed of four different layers. The crust is the layer that you live on, and it is the most widely studied and understood. The mantle is much hotter and has the ability to flow. The outer core and inner core are even hotter with pressures so great you would be squeezed into a ball sm ...
... The Earth is composed of four different layers. The crust is the layer that you live on, and it is the most widely studied and understood. The mantle is much hotter and has the ability to flow. The outer core and inner core are even hotter with pressures so great you would be squeezed into a ball sm ...
MAŠEK J., 1998. Stratigraphy of the Barrandian
... of the Teplá–Barrandian microplate in the Armorican Terrane Assemblage. A detailed sedimentological study of rocks exposed in the Štíleček Quarry SW of Sedlčany revealed a metaconglomerate bed approximately 8 m thick and at least 200 m long, with erosional base and negative grading in its lower part ...
... of the Teplá–Barrandian microplate in the Armorican Terrane Assemblage. A detailed sedimentological study of rocks exposed in the Štíleček Quarry SW of Sedlčany revealed a metaconglomerate bed approximately 8 m thick and at least 200 m long, with erosional base and negative grading in its lower part ...
Blank Review for Core - Mantle
... You must know all vocabulary words and be able to give an example of each You must be able to accurately label a diagram of the layers of the Earth (including the discontinuities) You must be able to answer question about any of the experiments conducted in class. Direct Observation Definition ...
... You must know all vocabulary words and be able to give an example of each You must be able to accurately label a diagram of the layers of the Earth (including the discontinuities) You must be able to answer question about any of the experiments conducted in class. Direct Observation Definition ...
Oceanic crust
... The rocks of the oceanic crust are very young, not older than 200 million years, compared with the rocks of the continental crust 3.6 billion years old. The decompression occurs beneath rifts in the crust, such as those found at the mid-ocean ridges, and it is through these rifts that lava is extrud ...
... The rocks of the oceanic crust are very young, not older than 200 million years, compared with the rocks of the continental crust 3.6 billion years old. The decompression occurs beneath rifts in the crust, such as those found at the mid-ocean ridges, and it is through these rifts that lava is extrud ...
document
... Earth’s surface. Lava: molten rock on the Earth’s surface that has lost at least some of its volatiles. Magma is usually silicate in composition: ~50-70 wt% SiO2 The rest is made up of Al2O3, Fe2O3, FeO, Na2O MgO, K2O, CaO, P2O5, TiO2 A continuous range of magma chemistries is observed. ...
... Earth’s surface. Lava: molten rock on the Earth’s surface that has lost at least some of its volatiles. Magma is usually silicate in composition: ~50-70 wt% SiO2 The rest is made up of Al2O3, Fe2O3, FeO, Na2O MgO, K2O, CaO, P2O5, TiO2 A continuous range of magma chemistries is observed. ...
UNIT 5 Text: Where to Look for Petroleum Grammar Revision
... When rocks near the surface break, or fracture they are classified as joints and faults. A joint is a fracture that has opened without displacement of its adjacent walls. The two sides of a fracture may move in relation to each other. If they do, the fracture is called a fault. Geologists classify f ...
... When rocks near the surface break, or fracture they are classified as joints and faults. A joint is a fracture that has opened without displacement of its adjacent walls. The two sides of a fracture may move in relation to each other. If they do, the fracture is called a fault. Geologists classify f ...
Shortly after the Earth formed, heat released by colliding particles
... – Oceanic: thin but dense (heavy, “sinks”); composed of basalt rock – Continental: thick but less dense; large variety of rock, mainly granite. ...
... – Oceanic: thin but dense (heavy, “sinks”); composed of basalt rock – Continental: thick but less dense; large variety of rock, mainly granite. ...
Chapter 4 Plate tectonics Review Game
... mantle and crust that together forms a rigid layer is called what? lithosphere ...
... mantle and crust that together forms a rigid layer is called what? lithosphere ...
OCEANIC GEOGRAPHY and the EARTH
... 2. formation of the oceans: oceans have been around for 4 billion years a. Theory #1: ocean water came from outgassing from volcanoes that spew water vapor from the mantle, which then condensed; some dissolved salts also may have come from the mantle, but they also come from weathering of rocks b. T ...
... 2. formation of the oceans: oceans have been around for 4 billion years a. Theory #1: ocean water came from outgassing from volcanoes that spew water vapor from the mantle, which then condensed; some dissolved salts also may have come from the mantle, but they also come from weathering of rocks b. T ...
