Plate Tectonics Final Flashcards

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Viscous

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Thick and sticky liquid

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Volume

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The space an object occupies

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Sea floor

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Bottom of an ocean

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4
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Mantle

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Middle layer of the Earth

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Crust

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Rocky outermost layer of the Earth

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Core

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Extremely hot center of Earth

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Discontinuities

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Area between Earth’s interior layers

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1/2 discontinuities

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  1. Mohorivicic - between crust and mantle
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9
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2/2 discontinuities

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Gutenberg - between mantle and core

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List 4 aspects of the lithosphere

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  1. It’s earths crust and mantle
  2. Forms crust-8 miles down
  3. Broken into giant plates
  4. Plates rest on some fluid part of mantle called asthenosphere
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11
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Prefix “pan” =

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All

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12
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“Gaea” =

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Land

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13
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“Thalas” =

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Ocean

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Pangea =

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All land

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15
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Panthalassa =

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All ocean

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6 aspects of the asthenosphere

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  1. Lies below lithosphere
  2. Upper part of mantle
  3. Begins at 75mi - 125mi
  4. Partially molten rock
  5. Asthenes’ in Greek means “weak”
  6. Can be pushed and formed like silly puddy
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Geologists have used two main types of evidence to learn about earths interior:

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  1. Direct evidence from rock samples

2. Indirect evidence from seismic waves

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Direct evidence from rock samples

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Rocks drilled from deep inside the earth allow geologists to make inferences about conditions

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Indirect evidence from seismic waves

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Seismic waves produced by scientists to measure the speed in which they travel giving clues to the structure of the planet

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Three main layers of the earth vary greatly in size, composition, temperature, and pressure. They are:

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  1. The crust
  2. The mantle
  3. The core
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List 4 aspects of the crust

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  1. Layer of solid rock that forms earths outer “skin”
  2. Includes both dry land and sea floor
  3. Oceanic crust consists mostly of basalt
  4. Continental crust, or the crust that forms the continents, consists mainly of grain
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List 3 aspects of the mantle

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  1. Layer of solid, hot rock 40 kilometers beneath earths surface
  2. Divided into 3 layers:
  3. The layers are the lithosphere , asthenosphere, and the lower mantle
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Lithosphere

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Upper most part of the mantle - about 100 kilometers thick

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Asthenosphere

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Softer part of the mantle beneath the lithosphere which is harder and under increased pressure

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Lower mantle
Solid material extending all the way to earths core
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List 3 aspects of the core
1. Made mostly of the metals iron and Nickel 2. Consists of 2 parts, the outer and inner core 3. Movement of liquid outer core created earths magnetic field
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To explain how heat moves from Earths core through the mantle, you need to know how heat is transferred. There are 3 types of heat transfer:
1. Radiation 2. Conduction 3. Convection
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What is the transfer of energy through empty space? ( has no direct contact between heat source and object)
Radiation - example sunlight warming earths surface
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Heat transfer by direct contact of particals of mater
Conduction - ex spoon heating up in a pot of soup
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Transfer of heat by the movement of a heated fluid - caused by differences of temperature and density within a fluid
Convection
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Density
Measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance - ex heating water on a stove
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Convection current
The flow that transfers heat