Earth Science Exam Review 2024 with Complete Solutions
seismic waves - Correct Answer ️️ -Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the
energy released during an earthquake.
crust - Correct Answer ️️ -the outer layer of the Earth
mantle - Correct Answer ️️ -the layer of hot, sol...
Earth Science Exam Review 2024 with Complete Solutions seismic waves - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake. crust - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the out er layer of the Earth mantle - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core lithosphere - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle asthe nosphere - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats basalt - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a rock that makes up much of the ocean floor granite - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a usually light -colored rock that is found in continental crust outer core - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth inner core - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth radiation - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the transfer of energy through space conduction - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that it is touching convection - Correct Answe r ✔️✔️-the transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid density - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the amount of matter in a given space convection current - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another continental drift - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations Pangaea - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-large, ancient landmass that w as composed of all the continents joined together fossil - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil mid-ocean ridge - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-An unde rwater moutain chain where new ocean floor is formed sonar - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a device that determines the distance of an object under water by recording echoes of sound waves sea-floor spreading - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the process by which molten materia l adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor deep -ocean trench - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle subduction - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-the process by which oceanic crust sinks ben eath a deep -ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary plate - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust
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