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18 Cards in this Set
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1.Which Two Layers Are Rigid And Break Into Plates? |
Crust and Mantle |
You can put this on a plate which you can breaon another name for fireplace |
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2.What Does The Anwser to No.1 Make? |
Lithosphere |
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3.Covection Currents Flow In This Layer? |
Middle Mantle |
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4.S-Waves Cannot Go Through This Layer? |
Liquid Outer Core |
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5.The Earth's Core Is Composed Of What Elements? |
Iron (Fe) and Nickle (Ni) |
(Fe) & (Ni) |
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6.Describe the four proofs for continental drift. |
1.Continents-map is jigsaw 2.Fossils 3.Rocks 4.Glacier(climate) |
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Transform |
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a.__-__. b.__-__ Force- Motion- Geological landforms/Example: |
a.C-C. b.O-O Shearing Side to Side San Andreas |
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Divergent |
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a.__-__. b.__-__. Force- Motion- Landform/Example- This island is a mix of fire and ice and is formed on the mid-ocean ridge. |
a.O-O. b.C-C. Ternsional Away From Each Other Mid-Atlantic ridge Iceland |
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Convergent |
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a.__-__. b.__-__. c.__-__. Force- Motion- Landform/Example- |
a.O-O b.C-C. c.O-C Compressinal Push Together Volcanic Mountians (Andes Mts.) |
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Subduction |
One plate is forced down under another |
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Convection Current |
Magma rising up and sinking in circular motion |
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Pangea |
Super Continent |
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Paleomagnetism |
Study of magnetic stripe/reversal |
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Seafloor Spreading |
Occurs at divergent boundaries magma rises--> new crust |
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How does paleomagnetism prove seafloor spreading? |
Magnetic polarity is the same at both sides of the ridge at equal distance |
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