Chapter 6 Test Review

Process of material heating, rising, cooling, condensing, and falling again (causes plate movement)

• Volcanic eruption
• Earthquake
• Convection Currents

• Tsunami

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Very thin and very dense layer of Earth

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Asthenosphere

Hot, "squishy", "melty", rock in the mantle (tectonic plates "float" on this layer)

• Lithosphere

• Continental Crust

• Asthenosphere

• Oceanic Crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Layer of earth that includes continental crust and oceanic crust

• Asthenosphere

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Lithosphere

The crust that makes up the continents (thick but less dense)

• Mantle

• Outer core
• Continental crust

• Oceanic crust

Thin, brittle layer of Earth that includes land and bodies of water

• core
• mantle
• atmosphere
• crust

Largest layer of Earth

• Atmosphere
• Crust
• Mantle
• Core

Earth's layer that is made of liquid rock

• solid core
• outer core
• magma layer
• crust

Earth's layer that is made of a spinning ball of solid iron; very, very hot

• crust
• mantle
• inner core
• outer core

The "supercontinent" Alfred Wegener believed existed millions of years ago

• Gondwana
• Atlantis
• Lemuria
• Pangaea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2