Landforms | Layers | Mantel | Crust | Heat Transfer & Core |
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What is landforms
features sculpted as a result of forces from inside the earth
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What is temperature and pressure
These increase as you go deeper into the earth's surface
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What is middle layer
Location of the mantel
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What is two
the amount of types of crust
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What is composition
Makes different rock types denser than others
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What is uplift
Process that moves the surface of the earth to higher elevations
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What is three
The amount of basic layers earth has
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What is brittle
Rocks located in the upper mantel are (describing word)
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What is rigid and brittle
describing words that tell what kind of rock makes up the crust
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What is convection
Process that allows thermal energy in the earth's outer core to escape towards the surface
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What is erosion
Wearing away of rock and soil
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What is earthquakes
These create sesimic waves
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What is peridotite
Type of rock that makes up the upper part of the mantel
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What is igneous rock (granitite)
contiential crust is made up of this type of rock
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What is plate techtonics
Convention in the mantel is important for this process
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What is internal energy
Produces uplift
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What is sesimic waves
Evidence collected about the earth's layers are from
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What is oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron
elements contained in the rocks found in the mantel
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What is basalt (igneous rock)
crust under the ocean is composed of this type of rock
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What is the core
Densest part of the earth
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What is plate techtonics
Volcanoes are created by
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What is 12 km
The depth of the furthest sample taken from earth's layers
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What is the asthenosphere
the plastic, almost solid rock layer of the mantel
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What is lithosphere
Crust and upper most layer of the mantel form this
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What is the inner core
Part of the core where pressure and heat is so great that metals exist in a solid state
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