Layers + Tectonic plates

Question 1

What are the Mechanical layers of the Earth?

Answer 1

Lithosphere Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, Inner Core

Question 2

What are the compositional layers of the Earth?

Answer 2

Crust, Mantle, Core

Question 3

Continental crust

Answer 3

Thicker but less dense, where we live

Question 4

Oceanic Crust

Answer 4

Thinner but denser, will sub duct under continental crust and younger ocean crust

Question 5

Lithosphere

Answer 5

Includes all crust and upper mantle (remember there are two layers of crust

Question 6

Aesthenosphere

Answer 6

Sludgy, like oobleck or toothpaste.

Question 7

Outer Core

Answer 7

Liquid

Question 8

Inner Core

Answer 8

Solid, Made up of mostly iron, some nickle

Question 9

What are the two seismic waves?

Answer 9

P + S

Question 10

P waves are

Answer 10

Primary

Question 11

P waves

Answer 11

go through all mediums

Question 12

p waves

Answer 12

move longitudinally

Question 13

p waves

Answer 13

faster than s - waves

Question 14

P waves

Answer 14

Bend when moving between layers

Question 15

P waves

Answer 15

40 degree Small shadow zone

Question 16

S-waves

Answer 16

secondary waves

Question 17

s waves

Answer 17

shear waves

Question 18

S waves

Answer 18

Cannot go through liquids, so they stop at the outer core

Question 19

S-waves

Answer 19

move transversely

Question 20

S waves

Answer 20

slower than p - waves

Question 21

S waves

Answer 21

cause more damage

Question 22

s waves

Answer 22

104 degree shadow zone and around

Question 23

What does studying seismic waves help us with?

Answer 23

Learn about the interior of the earth

Question 24

Who discovered continental drift

Answer 24

Alfred Wegner

Question 25

What’s evidence of continental drift?

Answer 25

Fossils

Question 26

Convection cells

Answer 26

Rising and sinking of hot magma as it heats (less dense) and as it cools (more dense)

Question 27

Convergent boundary geo processes