Chapter 1: Study Guide

The air that surrounds the earth.

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

The earth's crust and its inner layers.

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

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All the earth's saltwater and freshwater.

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

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Thin section of the earth's crust that makes up the ocean floors.

• Continental Crust

• Continental Drift

• Oceanic Crust

The thick section of the earth's crust below the continents.

• Continental Crust

• Continental Drift

• Oceanic Crust

Alfred Wegener's theory that the earth's crust is divided into sections that move; he called the sections plates.

• Continental Crust

• Continental Drift

• Oceanic Crust

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A Greek word meaning "all earth” or “all land”; a large supercontinent that Alfred Wegner said existed hundreds of millions of years ago.

• Pancake

• Planet Earth

• Pangaea

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Match the boundaries:

• Tectonic plates slide past each other

• Convergent

• Two tectonic plates collide

• Divergent

• Two tectonic plates separate

• Transform

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Atmosphere is a large section of the earth's crust.

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Convection current is the heating and cooling cycle of magma in the mantle's asthenosphere.

• True

• False

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