Test 1

What are the 7 Earth systems cycles

What piece of technology records the way seismic waves are transmitted through the earth's interior

Why does the earth have magnetic poles?

How does the earth work?

How do we know the sea floor is spreading

Are earthquakes and volcanoes distributed evenly?

What drives plate tectonics?

What is a rock?

What is a mineral?

What is the continental crust made up of?

What is the oceanic crust made up of

What creates mountain ranges

What are primary waves
(P-waves)

What are secondary waves
(S-waves)

How is wave energy reflected and refracted

What does the mantle consist mostly of

what occurs with depth

At approximately 100 to 200km depth what happens to the peridotite

what is the mantle density in the crust, mantle, upper mantle, transition zone and the lower mantle

How dense is the oceanic crust

How dense is the continental crust

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How dense is the inner core

How dense is the outer core

what is the outer core composition

How dense is the inner core

What is the composition of the inner core

What generates the magnetic field

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what is the orientation of the magnetic force field

What are the two components of rock magnetism

what does the magnetic record give and indication of

Certain minerals are ...

What has occurred with the earth's polarity during history

What are positive anomalies due to

what are negative anomalies due to

what will be the effects of a future magnetic reversal

What does the rock found in the oceanic show

What does a collisional convergent zone begin as

What occurs at continent-continent plate boundaries

what are the two types of convergent plate boundaries

what happens to the lithosphere at subduction zones

what is a continental rift

What happens to the oceanic crust

What happens at convergent plate boundaries

What are the three types of convergent boundaries

What is a Viscosity boundary

What is the crust composed of

What is the age of the crust

What are the properties of the continental crust

From the oceanic crust, what is the depth of the moho

What is the composition of the oceanic crust

what is the approximate age of the oceanic crust

What are the properties of the oceanic crust

How would you describe the movement of transform plates

How does a divergent boundary start

How does a subduction zone begin and stop

Where do the deepest and the largest earthquakes occur

Where do volcanoes originate

What are plumes

What is a slab pull?

What is trench suction

What is slab rollback

WHat are plate tectonic resistive forces

What is a basal sheer traction (mantle drag)

What can you construct if you correct local movements

What is important factor in the thermal cycle

What can mid-ocean ridges and sea floor spreading be a factor of

What do LLSVPs sit above

What drives plate motion

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What does convective motion require

What is a rock?

What is an igneous rock

What are sedimentary rocks

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What is the earth's crust composed of

Where does igneous activity primarily occur

What types of rocks are formed at divergent boundaries

What type of rocks form at convergent boundaries

What rock is found at divergent plate boundaries

Where else can igneous activity occur and why

All three rock types form at convergent plate boundaries, how is sedimentary rocks form

How are metamorphic rocks formed

How are igneous rocks formed

What occurs at transform plate boundaries

How is the rock cycle integrated into plate tectonics