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27 Cards in this Set
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What are the layers of Earth similar too
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Hard boiled egg
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How deep is the crust
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5-70 kilometers thick
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How deep is the mantle
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2,867 (3,000) kilometers
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How deep is the inner core
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1,216 kilometers
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how deep is the outer core
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2,266 kilometers
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What is in between the crust
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Asthenosphere
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What is more dense, the Oceanic Crust or the Continental Crust
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Oceanic Crust
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The Oceanic Crust and the Continental Crust are stuck to the mantle
true or false |
false
they float |
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Radiation needs to have particles
true or false |
false
they do not need particles |
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Conduction does not need the particles to be moving
true or false |
true
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Convection needs moving particles
true or false |
true
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Who was the first person to know about the continents being together
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Alfred Wegener
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What super continent did Alfred come up with
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Pangaea
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How could Alfred prove that the continents were once together
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Puzzle pieces
Fossils Geologic rock |
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What are the longest types of mountain ridges under water called
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mid-ocean ridges
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The tectonics plates are on
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conveyor belts
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Were is the mid-ocean ridge located
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in the Atlantic
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What are the 10 plates called
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Indian, Pacific, Antarctica, Eurasian, African, Caribbean, Nazca, South American, North American, Australian-Indian
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What kind of currents is the mantle going in
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convection currents
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There are three types of plate boundaries
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Divergent
Convergent Transform |
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Give an example of
continental-continental |
Indian / Eurasian
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give an example for
Oceanic-Oceanic |
Hawaii
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Give an example for
continental-Oceanic |
Andes / Himalayas
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Give a characteristic of
Divergent Boundaries |
the plates move apart
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Describe Sea-Floor Spreading
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most spreading boundaries occur at the mid-ocean ridge
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What is a deep valley called that forms along the spreading boundary
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Rift Valley
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Name three types of tectonics plates colliding
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Continental-Continental
Oceanic-Oceanic Oceanic-Continental |
not the transform and the rest of those
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