Chapter 7

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What is the correct order for the layers of the Earth?
Core, mantle, crust
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What is the inner core and outer core made of?
Inner core liquid nickel and iron / Outer core solid nickel and iron
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What causes the convection currents?
Radioactive decay from the mantle
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What is the solid outer layer of the Earth called?
The crust
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Give three reasons why scientists can't predict when earthquakes will happen
There is no patten / the tectonic plates can stay still for a while and then suddenly move / They don't know exactly what's below the Earth
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What name is given to the sections of the crust that float on the mantle?
Tectonic plates
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At what rates do tectonic plates move?
A few centimetres per year
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What do geologists call the earth's crust and upper mantle? (Hint * Lith.....)
Lithosphere
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What causes tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle
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3 Evidence of plate tectonics
Matching fossils found in both Africa and S. America / Jigsaw fit of continents / Living creatures such a earthworm found in both Africa and S. America
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What is the Earth's hottest layer?
The inner core (core is acceptable)
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The part of the Earth we live on is called the __________.
The crust
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Why don't earthquakes rarely take place in the UK?
Because the UK is not near the plate boundaries
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What causes an earthquake to occur?
Earthquakes happen when the plates suddenly slip past one another
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Where are volcanoes and earthquakes likely to happen?
At the plate bundaries
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Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
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What was Wegener's theory?
He thought that the Earth's continents were once joined together, but gradually moved apart over millions of years.
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Why was Wegener's theory not accepted by most scientists?
He could not explain how the plates moved
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