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REVIEW AND REINFORCE
Earth's Interior
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Understanding Main Ideas
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Label the layers of Earth by writing the name of the layer in the blank.
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Earth's layers
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Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
5. What does a geologist do?
6. Compare and contrast the asthenosphere with the lithosphere.
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b. the force pushing on a surface or area
c. a force that slowlywears awayfeatures of
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d. the study of planet Earth
e. a rock that makes up the core of the continents
11. geology
12. granite
f. one of Earth's great landmasses
g. a wave produced by an earthquake
h. a force that builds up features of Earth's surface
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15. seismic wave
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Convection Currents and the Mantle
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4. What are convection currents and what causes them?
5. What causes convection currents in Earth's mantle?
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6. The transfer of energy through
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7. The movement of energy from a warmer object t6 a cooler object is
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8. Conduction is heat transfer by direct contact of particles of matter.
9. Radiation is the transfer of heat by the movement of a heated fluid.
10. Density is a measure of how much heat there is in a volume of a substance.
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SECTION
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REVIEW
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Drifting Continents
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Evidencefor ContinentalDrift
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a. Mountain ranges in South America and
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b. European coal fields match with similar coal fields in
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b. Scratches in rocks made by 5.
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6. State the hypothesis of continental drift.
7. Why did most scientists reject Wegener'stheory for nearly a half century?
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8. All the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called
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10. Wegener's theory that the continents slowlymoved over Earth's surface
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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Understanding
Main Ideas
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Oceanic crust
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Mantle
1. Name and describe the feature of the ocean floor shown at A.
2. Describe the process shown occurring at B, and explain what results from this.
3. What happens to old oceaniccrust as new molten material risesfrom the mantle?
4. The arrows on the figure show the ocean floor spreading from the ridge.
What are three kinds of evidence scientists have found to support this idea?
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8. The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is called
9. The process by which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called
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10. The chain of mountains that extends into all of Earth's oceans is the
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REVIEW AND REINFORCE
The Theory of Plate Tectonics
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Main Ideas
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Label each figure by writing the type of plate boundary it shows.
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Answer thefollowing questionson a separatesheet of paper.
4. Describe what happens when a. two plates carryingoceanic crust collide,
b. two plates carryingcontinental crust collide,and c. a plate carrying oceanic
crust collideswith a plate carryingcontinental crust.
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5. Explain what force caused the movement of the continents from one supercontinent to their present positions.
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7. Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other are called
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10. The geologicaltheory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant,
slow motion is called
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