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- 1. Multiple Choice
Michael and Jose are studying about plate tectonics. They learned that plates usually move a few centimeters every year. They learned that the movement of heated material caused the plates to move. In which layer does the heated material move?
Inner Core
Outer Core
Mantle
Crust
- 2. Multiple Choice
The Atlantic Ocean is growing in size by about one centimeter per year. How does an ocean become larger?
Oceanic plates are moving apart.
The density of the oceanic plates is decreasing.
Increased air temperatures are increasing evaporation.
Trenches are formed by oceanic plates sliding under continental plates.
- 3. Multiple Choice
In some places on Earth, large tectonic plates are moving toward each other and collide with great force. One such place is where the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate meet.
What would you expect to occur where these two tectonic plates collide?
Only volcanoes
Only earthquakes
A rift valley and volcanoes
Mountains and earthquakes
- 4. Fill in the Blank
Transform boundaries cause?
Word bank: earthquakes, volcanic islands, underwater volcanoes
- 5. Fill in the Blank
Divergent boundaries cause?
Word bank: earthquakes, volcanic islands, underwater volcanoes
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich layer of the Earth is the thickest?Inner CoreMantleCrustOuter Core
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a difference between oceanic & continental crust?Continental is thickerOceanic is thickerContinental is made of basaltOceanic is made of granite
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the hottest layer of the Earth?
inner core
lithosphere
crust
mantle
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the driving force behind plate tectonics?convection currentsmagnetic reversalvolcanic eruptionsubduction zones
- 10. Multiple Choice
Name the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary - 11. Multiple ChoiceName the boundaryconvergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundarysergent boundary
- 12. Multiple Choice
Ocean crust is made of _______ and is _______ dense than continental crust.
basalt, less
basalt, more
granite, less
granite, more
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe outermost solid layer of the Earth is called the ...mantleouter coreinner corecrust
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....Convergent BoundaryDivergent BoundaryTransform BoundaryPlate Boundary
- 15. Multiple ChoiceEarth's plates are...constantly moving and changing the face of the earthNever movesMoves seldom and very fastMoves when it feels like it
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThis layer of Earth is solid Iron and NickelOuter CoreMantleInner CoreCrust
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