Earth's Layers and Heat Transfer Quiz

What is the Continental Crust?

• The soft layer of the mantle where convection currents are found, and on which the lithosphere floats

• Waves traveling through layers of the Earth that scientists use to make predictions about the layers

• The relatively thick part of Earth’s crust which forms the large land masses

• The layer of molten, but still considered mostly solid material between Earth’s crust and core

What does Radiation refer to in the context of Earth's layers and heat transfer?

• The transfer of heat energy by waves through a space

• The amount of mass in a given space

• Heat currents in the magma that move from the interior of Earth to the surface and drive plate tectonics

• The layer containing the crust and upper mantle, where the tectonic plates are found.

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What is the Crust?

• A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth

• The layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer surface

• The layer of liquid iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth

• The relatively thin part of the Earth’s crust which lies beneath the ocean basins

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What is the Asthenosphere?

• The layer of molten, but still considered mostly solid material between Earth’s crust and core

• The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid: either liquid or gas

• The amount of mass in a given space

• The layer containing the crust and upper mantle, where the tectonic plates are found.

What are Convection currents?

• The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid: either liquid or gas

• The relatively thin part of the Earth’s crust which lies beneath the ocean basins

• Heat currents in the magma that move from the interior of Earth to the surface and drive plate tectonics

• The layer containing the crust and upper mantle, where the tectonic plates are found.

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What is the Continental crust?

• The relatively thick part of Earth’s crust which forms the large land masses

• A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth

• The layer of liquid iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth

• The layer of molten, but still considered mostly solid material between Earth’s crust and core

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What are Seismic waves?

• The amount of mass in a given space

• Waves traveling through layers of the Earth that scientists use to make predictions about the layers

• The transfer of heat energy by waves through a space

• The layer containing the crust and upper mantle, where the tectonic plates are found.

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What is the Lithosphere?

• The layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer surface

• The layer of molten, but still considered mostly solid material between Earth’s crust and core

• The layer containing the crust and upper mantle, where the tectonic plates are found.

• The relatively thin part of the Earth’s crust which lies beneath the ocean basins

What is the Inner core?

• A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth

• The layer of liquid iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth

• The layer of molten, but still considered mostly solid material between Earth’s crust and core

• The layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer surface

What does Density refer to?

• The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid: either liquid or gas

• The amount of mass in a given space

• Heat currents in the magma that move from the interior of Earth to the surface and drive plate tectonics

• The layer containing the crust and upper mantle, where the tectonic plates are found.