SCIENCE Flashcards
4 LAYERS OF THE EARTH
CRUST
MANTLE
OUTER CORE
INNER CORE
Crust and Mantle make up?
Lithosphere
The lithosphere is broken into?
Tectonic Plate
Below the lithosphere is the? which is about 180 km thick and contains hot, molten rocks or magma.
Asthenosphere
The tectonic plate move due to? (The 2 forces)
Driving forces
Resisting forces
It is comprise of the Lithosphere.
Crust
The Crust- It makes up the continents called___________ and is about 40 to 70 km thick
Continental Crust
The crust is made up of light granitic rocks made up mostly________?
Aluminum Silicates
is composed of major and minor blocks, called tectonic plates- that interact and create the tectonic activities on Earth.
Lithosphere
The asthenosphere can deform and reshape driven by heat energy, which circulates as?
Convection Currents
Therefore, this heat transfer mechanism helps drive the movement of tectonic plates, which manifested as?
Earthquakes.
TRUE OR FALSE?
Scientists believe that tectonic plates move because of convection currents that flow up from the core of the Earth and circulate under the asthenosphere
TRUE
underlies the ocean floor called the?
Oceanic cRUST
the Oceanic Crust has an average thickness of ?
5Km
Oceanic Crust is composed of?
dense Basaltic rocks and Magnesium Silicates
An English astronomer and mathematician, theorized that Earth is hallow
Edmund Halley
TRUE OR FALSE?
Harry Hess said the core was about the size of Mercury and that these layers were also inhabited.
FALSE
(IT WAS EDMUND HALLEY)
TRUE OR FALSE?
science confirms that the outer core of Earth is even bigger than Mercury.
TRUE
Based on seismological data, Earth’s outer core has a radius of?
3400 km
Based on seismological data, Mercury has a radius of?
2440km
Age of continental plates?
3.8 to 4 billion yrs old
Age of Oceanic plates?
less than 200 million years old
Coverage of Continental plates in the Earth’s surface?
71%
Coverage of oceanic plates in the Earth’s surface?
29%
It is a semi-solid, rocky and very hot layer.
Mantle
Mantle is composed of?
Ferro-magnesium silicates rocks
It is composed of Ferro-magnesium silicates rocks
Mantle
measures about 2900 km thick that makes up 80% of Earth and carries most of its mass.
Mantle
The temperature of the top layer of mantle?
900 C (900 degree celsius)
As goes deeper into mantle , temperature increases from?
1000 to 3700 C (degree celsius)
only layer that is liquid which made up of molten nickel and iron.
Outer Core
Outer core is made up of?
molten nickel and iron.
It is about 2270 km thick and has temperature ranges from 3700 to 4300 ᴼC.
Outer core