AMGEN SUMMER SCIENCE INSTITUTE 2003
... Two sample quizzes and a puzzle activity is given on the following pages. ...
... Two sample quizzes and a puzzle activity is given on the following pages. ...
Overview of the Big Questions in Physical Geology
... Andreas fault to the west and the Hayward fault to the east. This is part of a large-scale transform system that stretches from the Gulf of California to Cape Mendocino. What is a tectonic plate? How many major plates are there?A tectonic plate is made of the crust and the uppermost part of the mant ...
... Andreas fault to the west and the Hayward fault to the east. This is part of a large-scale transform system that stretches from the Gulf of California to Cape Mendocino. What is a tectonic plate? How many major plates are there?A tectonic plate is made of the crust and the uppermost part of the mant ...
Internal Structure of the Earth File
... smaller bits, called plates, which float on a dense mantle. Parts of the mantle are molten liquid and movements in this liquid cause the plates to drift into one another. It is the meeting of the plates that causes the earthquakes. The density of the material forming the Earth increases with depth. ...
... smaller bits, called plates, which float on a dense mantle. Parts of the mantle are molten liquid and movements in this liquid cause the plates to drift into one another. It is the meeting of the plates that causes the earthquakes. The density of the material forming the Earth increases with depth. ...
Plate Tectonics Bingo - Western Reserve Public Media
... small moving plates, each about 50 miles thick. They move relative to one another an average of a few inches a year or about as fast as fingernails grow. Plate Tectonics: The term for the field of study of large scale motions of the earth’s lithosphere. Subduction: When one plate is forced beneath a ...
... small moving plates, each about 50 miles thick. They move relative to one another an average of a few inches a year or about as fast as fingernails grow. Plate Tectonics: The term for the field of study of large scale motions of the earth’s lithosphere. Subduction: When one plate is forced beneath a ...
Plate Tectonics - Ms. Gravette and the Mad Scientists
... What discoveries support continental drift? In mid 1900s, scientists found under-water mountain ranges called mid-ocean ridges. This discovery led to the Theory of Plate Tectonics ...
... What discoveries support continental drift? In mid 1900s, scientists found under-water mountain ranges called mid-ocean ridges. This discovery led to the Theory of Plate Tectonics ...
Unit 5 – Structure of the Earth
... Fossils of same species on all continents Same rock formations across continents Ancient glaciers were in the tropics ...
... Fossils of same species on all continents Same rock formations across continents Ancient glaciers were in the tropics ...
Project #1: Inversion of multiple geophysical data for composition
... Project #1: Inversion of multiple geophysical data for composition and thermal structure of the Earth's upper mantle. One of the main challenges concerning the Earth’s upper mantle is the determination of its present-day thermal and compositional structure. This information represents the basis for ...
... Project #1: Inversion of multiple geophysical data for composition and thermal structure of the Earth's upper mantle. One of the main challenges concerning the Earth’s upper mantle is the determination of its present-day thermal and compositional structure. This information represents the basis for ...
Turtle
... *Because the Earth Mother is said to be a Turtle…and because the Turtle shell has 13 Scutes and because the Earth scientists say that the Earth’s crust has 12 moving plates**… Research the names of those plates and begin to explain not only earthquakes and volcanoes and subduction zones that uplift ...
... *Because the Earth Mother is said to be a Turtle…and because the Turtle shell has 13 Scutes and because the Earth scientists say that the Earth’s crust has 12 moving plates**… Research the names of those plates and begin to explain not only earthquakes and volcanoes and subduction zones that uplift ...
DYNAMIC EARTH NOTES
... Europe, but nowhere else in the world. The organism could not have traveled from one area to the other). c. Ancient Climates: It was determined that there were similar climates around the same geologic time frame on two different continents that looks like they could have fit in the same puzzle. (Ex ...
... Europe, but nowhere else in the world. The organism could not have traveled from one area to the other). c. Ancient Climates: It was determined that there were similar climates around the same geologic time frame on two different continents that looks like they could have fit in the same puzzle. (Ex ...
Inside Earth Chapter 1 Plate Tectonics Study Guide Notes
... - He said that at the mid-ocean ridge, molten materials rise from the mantle and erupt. The molten material then spreads out pushing older rock to both sides of the ridge. - Hess called the process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor sea-floor spreading. Evidence to support Sea-flo ...
... - He said that at the mid-ocean ridge, molten materials rise from the mantle and erupt. The molten material then spreads out pushing older rock to both sides of the ridge. - Hess called the process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor sea-floor spreading. Evidence to support Sea-flo ...
Interior Earth vocabulary.xlsx
... Earth's continental crust is 40KM thick on average and oceanic crust is 7 KM thick on average. A boundary along which two tectonic plates move apart, characterized by either a mid-oceanic Divergent Boundaries or a continental rift valley. An area where a column of hot material rises from deep within ...
... Earth's continental crust is 40KM thick on average and oceanic crust is 7 KM thick on average. A boundary along which two tectonic plates move apart, characterized by either a mid-oceanic Divergent Boundaries or a continental rift valley. An area where a column of hot material rises from deep within ...
hsess1-5
... Evaluate evidence of the past and current movements of continental and oceanic crust and the theory of plate tectonics to explain the ages of crustal rocks. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the ability of plate tectonics to explain the ages of crustal rocks. Examples include evidence of the ...
... Evaluate evidence of the past and current movements of continental and oceanic crust and the theory of plate tectonics to explain the ages of crustal rocks. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the ability of plate tectonics to explain the ages of crustal rocks. Examples include evidence of the ...
Journey to the Center of Earth
... Layer that we live on (Lithosphere) 5-25 miles thick Consists of cooled rock Thinnest layer of the earth There are 2 kinds of Crust: Continental (thicker) and Oceanic (thinner) ...
... Layer that we live on (Lithosphere) 5-25 miles thick Consists of cooled rock Thinnest layer of the earth There are 2 kinds of Crust: Continental (thicker) and Oceanic (thinner) ...
Earth`s Moon
... Global Plates move slowly – plate tectonics The motion at their boundaries causes earthquakes. ...
... Global Plates move slowly – plate tectonics The motion at their boundaries causes earthquakes. ...
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Mountain building
... • 2 tectonic plates collide • 1 plate boundary is subducted or forced deeper into earth • Causes other slab to fold deeply • Hot magma can seep to surface of earth • Spreading of two plates can cause hot magma to rise to surface ...
... • 2 tectonic plates collide • 1 plate boundary is subducted or forced deeper into earth • Causes other slab to fold deeply • Hot magma can seep to surface of earth • Spreading of two plates can cause hot magma to rise to surface ...
If you think about a volcano, you know Earth must be hot inside. The
... • Composed primarily of Fe with some Ni. Represents 1.7% of earth’s mass. Temp is near 7000K but material is solid because of intense pressure. Average density is 13.5 g/cc. ...
... • Composed primarily of Fe with some Ni. Represents 1.7% of earth’s mass. Temp is near 7000K but material is solid because of intense pressure. Average density is 13.5 g/cc. ...
Abyssal plain- very level area of the deep ocean floor, usually lying
... as it is - that is, maintain the status quo. Nonrenewable resource - resources that forms or accumulates over such long time spans that it must be considered as fixed in total quantity. ...
... as it is - that is, maintain the status quo. Nonrenewable resource - resources that forms or accumulates over such long time spans that it must be considered as fixed in total quantity. ...
ES Ch 1 Test
... b. convection. d. subduction. ______ 5. Using data from seismic waves, geologists have learned that Earth’s interior is made up of several a. continents. c. ridges. b. layers. d. trenches. ______ 6. Which of Earth’s layers is the thickest? a. the crust c. the outer core b. the mantle d. the inner co ...
... b. convection. d. subduction. ______ 5. Using data from seismic waves, geologists have learned that Earth’s interior is made up of several a. continents. c. ridges. b. layers. d. trenches. ______ 6. Which of Earth’s layers is the thickest? a. the crust c. the outer core b. the mantle d. the inner co ...
Chapter 04 Plate Tectonics
... The Richter Scale is used to record and compare earthquake intensities. ...
... The Richter Scale is used to record and compare earthquake intensities. ...
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
... • There are currently 7 con.nents make up of layers of rock, and surrounded by oceans. ...
... • There are currently 7 con.nents make up of layers of rock, and surrounded by oceans. ...
Unit 3 study Guide
... 21.) What are the different types of seismic waves? Give information about each type. Body Waves: P-waves – bend slightly when they travel from one layer to another ------ S-waves – cannot travel through liquid material Surface Waves: travel along the surface * They all travel outwards in all direc ...
... 21.) What are the different types of seismic waves? Give information about each type. Body Waves: P-waves – bend slightly when they travel from one layer to another ------ S-waves – cannot travel through liquid material Surface Waves: travel along the surface * They all travel outwards in all direc ...
Lecture - Ann Arbor Earth Science
... surface does today. The Earth was probably composed of the same material from its surface all the way to its center. Objects colliding with Earth helped to cause Earth to grow hot enough that heavy elements such as iron and nickel melted. The material composing Earth gradually separated into several ...
... surface does today. The Earth was probably composed of the same material from its surface all the way to its center. Objects colliding with Earth helped to cause Earth to grow hot enough that heavy elements such as iron and nickel melted. The material composing Earth gradually separated into several ...
Geophysics
Geophysics /dʒiːoʊfɪzɪks/ is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics organizations use a broader definition that includes the water cycle including snow and ice; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.Although geophysics was only recognized as a separate discipline in the 19th century, its origins go back to ancient times. The first magnetic compasses were made from lodestones, while more modern magnetic compasses played an important role in the history of navigation. The first seismic instrument was built in 132 BC. Isaac Newton applied his theory of mechanics to the tides and the precession of the equinox; and instruments were developed to measure the Earth's shape, density and gravity field, as well as the components of the water cycle. In the 20th century, geophysical methods were developed for remote exploration of the solid Earth and the ocean, and geophysics played an essential role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics.Geophysics is applied to societal needs, such as mineral resources, mitigation of natural hazards and environmental protection. Geophysical survey data are used to analyze potential petroleum reservoirs and mineral deposits, locate groundwater, find archaeological relics, determine the thickness of glaciers and soils, and assess sites for environmental remediation.