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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The outermost solid layer of the Earth is called themantleouter coreinner corecrust
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of these two layers is a solid?innercoreOutercore
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What is the ridged solid layer of the Earth's surface made up of the crust and upper mantle called?
asthenosphere
lithosphere
mesosphere
continental crust
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Temperature _____________________ as you go deeper into the earth.increasesdecreasesgoes up and down depending on the layerstays the same
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Pressure ______________________ as you go deeper into the Earthincreasesdecreasesgoes up or down depending on the layerstays the same
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent?Supreme ContinentEurasiaPlate tectonicsPangea
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of these layers is ALL solid iron and nickle?inner coreouter corelithospheremesosphere
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?Tectonic plates on the crust move.The mantle increases in size.Pressure in the crust increases.Pressure in the crust decreases.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth'sContinental crustOceanic crustAsthenosphereLithosphere
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Where does the heat come from that drives the convection current in the mantle?
The sun
The crust
the mantle
the core
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What does the theory of continental drift state?The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over timeContinents are stationary and do not moveThe Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currentsnone of the above
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Name the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Name the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Name the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?submarine zonedivergence zonesubduction zonelower zone
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Associated with transform boundaries.Volcanoesmountainstrenchesearthquakes
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Oceanic crust isYounger and less dense than continental crustThinner, younger and more dense than continental crustOlder, thicker and less dense that continental crustBigger and younger than continental crust
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Earth's plates are...constantly moving and changing the face of the earthNever movesMoves seldom and very fastMoves when it feels like it
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Volcanoes are most often formed at this boundary.DivergentConvergentNormalTransform
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is formed at this boundary.DivergentConvergentNormalTransform