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Seafloor Spreading
Seafloor Spreading
Seafloor Spreading
Using your
understanding of earths
interior, write a short
paragraph about why it
would be impossible to
dig a hole to china.
Name at least 2
properties of earths
interior that make the
task impossible?
1000 degrees Celsius =
1832 degrees Fahrenheit
Peaches and Earth
(Think, Pair, Share)
If we compared earth to a
peach:
1. Which major layers
would the skin, flesh,
and pit represent?
C Skin
____ a. Mantle
A Flesh
____ b. Core
____
B Pit c. Crust
S L G
How do we know the outer core is liquid?
S-waves are Absorbed by the
outer core because the outer core
is liquid.
S-Waves P- Waves
What happens to P waves as they travel
through different layers of earths interior?
P- waves are Refracted (bent) as
they pass through different layers
of earths interior.
What is the Shadow Zone?
- Area on earth where no P or S
waves are received.
P-Waves
Can travel Also called
Compresses
through solids primary and
and expands
1. like a spring and liquids compressional
waves
S-Waves