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Earth Science Exam Review UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers 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...

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Earth Science Exam Review UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
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, 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


asthenosphere - 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 ANSWER✔✔- 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 was 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 underwater 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 material 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 beneath a
deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary

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