Module Plate Tectonics
... Introduction: The rigid outer shell of Earth, called the lithosphere, floats on a softer partially fluid layer of Earth’s mantle called the asthenosphere. Earth’s outer shell has layers that behave by breaking or stretching. The rigid lithosphere is cracked and broken like the shell of a hard-boiled ...
... Introduction: The rigid outer shell of Earth, called the lithosphere, floats on a softer partially fluid layer of Earth’s mantle called the asthenosphere. Earth’s outer shell has layers that behave by breaking or stretching. The rigid lithosphere is cracked and broken like the shell of a hard-boiled ...
facts and concepts that you need to know to pass the earth science
... In the greenhouse effect visible light (short wavelengths) can be absorbed and infrared radiation (long wavelengths) are trapped by carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. All weather occurs due to differences in temperature which set up convection cells in the atmosphere. Warm air rises because i ...
... In the greenhouse effect visible light (short wavelengths) can be absorbed and infrared radiation (long wavelengths) are trapped by carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. All weather occurs due to differences in temperature which set up convection cells in the atmosphere. Warm air rises because i ...
Name:______________________________ o ___________________ Samples
... These rocks only form when molten material cools ___________________ o Magnetic strips The earth’s magnetic poles have ___________________ many times Evidence in the ___________________ on the ocean floor o Drilling Samples The samples far from the ridge are ___________________ The “youn ...
... These rocks only form when molten material cools ___________________ o Magnetic strips The earth’s magnetic poles have ___________________ many times Evidence in the ___________________ on the ocean floor o Drilling Samples The samples far from the ridge are ___________________ The “youn ...
crust, mantle
... sentence: crust, mantle, and core. » Scientists divide the Earth into the crust, mantle, and core based on the chemical elements that make up each of these layers. ...
... sentence: crust, mantle, and core. » Scientists divide the Earth into the crust, mantle, and core based on the chemical elements that make up each of these layers. ...
Changes in the Earth`s surface
... • Heat coming from nuclear reactions in the core • The heat causes convection currents in the mantle • This causes areas of the crust to move around ...
... • Heat coming from nuclear reactions in the core • The heat causes convection currents in the mantle • This causes areas of the crust to move around ...
The Moon
... - Pressure at surface is 90 x that of Earth's => much more gas in atmosphere. No oceans. - Consequence - meteoroids burn up easily. No impact craters less than ~3 km. - 96.5% CO2 - Yellowish color from sulfuric acid clouds and haze. - Hot at surface - 730 K! Almost hot enough to melt rock - Why so h ...
... - Pressure at surface is 90 x that of Earth's => much more gas in atmosphere. No oceans. - Consequence - meteoroids burn up easily. No impact craters less than ~3 km. - 96.5% CO2 - Yellowish color from sulfuric acid clouds and haze. - Hot at surface - 730 K! Almost hot enough to melt rock - Why so h ...
SOL 5.6 Interrelationships in Earth/Space Systems (Oceans)
... Spring tides occur when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are in line. This is during the full moon or new moon. During this time the tides are strong causing extremely high tides and extremely low tides. ...
... Spring tides occur when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are in line. This is during the full moon or new moon. During this time the tides are strong causing extremely high tides and extremely low tides. ...
Earth`s Interior and Plate Tectonics
... ►5 – 100 km thick ►Thinnest layer ►High in Silicon and Oxygen ...
... ►5 – 100 km thick ►Thinnest layer ►High in Silicon and Oxygen ...
Iron Hill Museum Middle School Geology Program Teachers: This
... 3. Why are rocks and minerals not evenly distributed on the Earth? Vocabulary to know: organic, inorganic, mineral, rock, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, intrusive, extrusive, luster, cleavage/fracture, convection, process Major understandings: 1. All processes that affect rocks and minerals are ...
... 3. Why are rocks and minerals not evenly distributed on the Earth? Vocabulary to know: organic, inorganic, mineral, rock, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, intrusive, extrusive, luster, cleavage/fracture, convection, process Major understandings: 1. All processes that affect rocks and minerals are ...
SG Earth Layers
... crust: solid, outermost layer of the Earth, lying above the mantle continental crust: found under the land masses; made of less dense rocks such as granite oceanic crust: found under the ocean floor; the outermost layer of Earth’s lithosphere that is made of dense rocks such as basalt mantle: dense ...
... crust: solid, outermost layer of the Earth, lying above the mantle continental crust: found under the land masses; made of less dense rocks such as granite oceanic crust: found under the ocean floor; the outermost layer of Earth’s lithosphere that is made of dense rocks such as basalt mantle: dense ...
Science SOL 5.7d Earth`s Layers
... 1) What are the four layers of the Earth? 2) The Earth’s crust is very ______? 3) The mantle is the largest layer of the Earth? True or False 4) Is the Outer Core a liquid or a solid? ...
... 1) What are the four layers of the Earth? 2) The Earth’s crust is very ______? 3) The mantle is the largest layer of the Earth? True or False 4) Is the Outer Core a liquid or a solid? ...
Unit 3 Crossword
... Rocks deform and store energy, then the energy is released as rocks snap back into their pre-stressed shape. This is called ... We know the outer core is liquid because _______ are stopped. First to arrive at any seismic station during an earthquake. The location on the surface directly above the fo ...
... Rocks deform and store energy, then the energy is released as rocks snap back into their pre-stressed shape. This is called ... We know the outer core is liquid because _______ are stopped. First to arrive at any seismic station during an earthquake. The location on the surface directly above the fo ...
Earthquakescrossword
... 3. break in Earth’s crust along which portions of Earth’s crust move relative to one another 4. the study of earthquakes 5. point inside Earth where an earthquake begins 8. point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point 10. the fastest seismic waves 11. secondary seismic wave ...
... 3. break in Earth’s crust along which portions of Earth’s crust move relative to one another 4. the study of earthquakes 5. point inside Earth where an earthquake begins 8. point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point 10. the fastest seismic waves 11. secondary seismic wave ...
Unit1continetaldrift 3.40MB 2017-03-29 12:41:28
... As Wegener developed his ideas on the movement of continents it became clear that about 300 million years ago the continents were a single landmass called Pangaea. Over the next 100 million years this landmass drifted apart forming two distinct regions: Laurasia – In the Northern Hemisphere, made ...
... As Wegener developed his ideas on the movement of continents it became clear that about 300 million years ago the continents were a single landmass called Pangaea. Over the next 100 million years this landmass drifted apart forming two distinct regions: Laurasia – In the Northern Hemisphere, made ...
Earth`s crust, the surface layer of the planet, is
... and unbroken. The forces that rage inside the planet have fractured this brittle layer. Some of these fractures, called faults, lie beneath the surface of the crust. Other faults, however, have ruptured the surface, cracking the crust into various-sized blocks of rock. These blocks dip and rise alon ...
... and unbroken. The forces that rage inside the planet have fractured this brittle layer. Some of these fractures, called faults, lie beneath the surface of the crust. Other faults, however, have ruptured the surface, cracking the crust into various-sized blocks of rock. These blocks dip and rise alon ...
Commotion Beneath the Ocean Due Date – See Cour
... The breakup of Pangaea resulted in the formation of the modern ocean basins as continental masses drifted apart, allowing seawater to flow between the landmasses. 3. Formation of the Modern Ocean Basins As the continents drift apart, new crust is formed beneath the sea to fill the space. The shoreli ...
... The breakup of Pangaea resulted in the formation of the modern ocean basins as continental masses drifted apart, allowing seawater to flow between the landmasses. 3. Formation of the Modern Ocean Basins As the continents drift apart, new crust is formed beneath the sea to fill the space. The shoreli ...
Begin expedition at
... The breakup of Pangaea resulted in the formation of the modern ocean basins as continental masses drifted apart, allowing seawater to flow between the landmasses. 3. Formation of the Modern Ocean Basins As the continents drift apart, new crust is formed beneath the sea to fill the space. The shoreli ...
... The breakup of Pangaea resulted in the formation of the modern ocean basins as continental masses drifted apart, allowing seawater to flow between the landmasses. 3. Formation of the Modern Ocean Basins As the continents drift apart, new crust is formed beneath the sea to fill the space. The shoreli ...
The Earth`s Layers
... Therefor it is more solid than the lower mantle • The lower mantle is softer than the upper mantle. Although it is not completely liquid. ...
... Therefor it is more solid than the lower mantle • The lower mantle is softer than the upper mantle. Although it is not completely liquid. ...
What are the Layers of the Earth?
... Directly below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere, a region of the mantle with a plastic, semisolid consistency which reaches to about 2900 km below the surface. The solid, metallic inner core goes the rest of the way to the center of the earth. Both are composed primarily of iron and nickel. The ...
... Directly below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere, a region of the mantle with a plastic, semisolid consistency which reaches to about 2900 km below the surface. The solid, metallic inner core goes the rest of the way to the center of the earth. Both are composed primarily of iron and nickel. The ...
Power Point print view
... Theory of Plate Tectonics • Earth’s biota – all of living things – has evolved or changed through history and is explained by the Theory of Organic Evolution • All of the geologic processes take place within an extensive geologic time scale spanning 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history ...
... Theory of Plate Tectonics • Earth’s biota – all of living things – has evolved or changed through history and is explained by the Theory of Organic Evolution • All of the geologic processes take place within an extensive geologic time scale spanning 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history ...
Chapter 10 Rock cycle Vocabulary
... rocks from one kind to another. 14. sediment: Small, solid particles of material from rocks or organisms which are moved by water or wind, resulting in erosion and deposition. 15. sedimentary rock: A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pre ...
... rocks from one kind to another. 14. sediment: Small, solid particles of material from rocks or organisms which are moved by water or wind, resulting in erosion and deposition. 15. sedimentary rock: A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pre ...
Excellence
... Light can do 2 things when it hits a particle. It can travel through (transmitted) or it can be absorbed. If the light is absorbed it gets radiated back out at different angles (scattered). The longer red wavelengths often travel straight through the atmosphere, the shorter blue wavelengths are more ...
... Light can do 2 things when it hits a particle. It can travel through (transmitted) or it can be absorbed. If the light is absorbed it gets radiated back out at different angles (scattered). The longer red wavelengths often travel straight through the atmosphere, the shorter blue wavelengths are more ...
Waves inside earth In 1864, Jules Verne wrote A
... Wave motion Two type of seismic waves that are important are primary and secondary waves. P-waves travel faster than S-waves and move with a forward-and-backward motion. Slower S-waves travel with a side-to- side motion. ...
... Wave motion Two type of seismic waves that are important are primary and secondary waves. P-waves travel faster than S-waves and move with a forward-and-backward motion. Slower S-waves travel with a side-to- side motion. ...
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. ""Nature"" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena.The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or ""essential qualities, innate disposition"", and in ancient times, literally meant ""birth"". Natura is a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage continued during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.Within the various uses of the word today, ""nature"" often refers to geology and wildlife. Nature can refer to the general realm of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth. It is often taken to mean the ""natural environment"" or wilderness–wild animals, rocks, forest, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. For example, manufactured objects and human interaction generally are not considered part of nature, unless qualified as, for example, ""human nature"" or ""the whole of nature"". This more traditional concept of natural things which can still be found today implies a distinction between the natural and the artificial, with the artificial being understood as that which has been brought into being by a human consciousness or a human mind. Depending on the particular context, the term ""natural"" might also be distinguished from the unnatural or the supernatural.