Froiland's Tectonic Vocab Quiz
26 Questions
| Total Attempts: 113
This is a vocabulary quiz using vocabulary associated with earth's layers, heat transfer, and plate boundaries.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What do you call the movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler one?
- 2.Place where two lithospheric plates "collide" together.
- 3.Energy that is transferred through empty space (like from the sun).
- 4.Place where two lithospheric plates move away from each other.
- 5.Transferring energy by direct contact.
- 6.Place where lithospheric plates slide past each other.
- 7.Moving heat energy by a circular movement.
- 8.Lithospheric pieces of Earth's crust that float on the asthenosphere.
- 9.Found in the mantle of the earth, responsible for the movement of lithospheric plates.
- 10.Process that occurs at a convergent boundary, when an oceanic plate is pushed under another lithospheric plate.
- 11.Outer most layer of the earth.
- 12.Deep water canyon that forms by the converging of 2 lithospheric plates.
- 13.Middle layer of the earth, where convection currents are found.
- 14.Process of continually adding new material on the sea floor.
- 15.Section of the earth that contains the crust and the upper most part of the mantle.
- 16.Sound waves used to measure distance.
- 17.A pushing force. Increases as we go deeper into the earth.
- 18.Largest mountain range in the world. Birthplace of new sea floor.
- 19.Soft "frosting like" layer just beneath the lithosphere.
- 20.Any trace of an organism preserved in rock.
- 21.Molten layer of the earth responsible for earth's magnetic field.
- 22."Supercontinent" from about 200 million years ago.
- 23.Centermost solid layer of earth.
- 24.Theory that the continents were once joined into a single landmass and have since drifted apart. Belief was first introduced by Alfred Wegener.
- 25.Waves created by earthquakes. Used by scientists to study parts of the earth that they cannot see or travel to.
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