Earth Layers and Plate Tectonics

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The four layers that make-up the earth’s composition are: Crust, Lithosphere, Mesosphere and Core, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mantle and Core, Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core, Mantle, Outer Core, Lithosphere and Crust

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Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core

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Large pieces of lithosphere that move around on the asthenosphere are called

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Tectonic plates

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The hypothesis that land masses spread apart from each other and have done so in the past is known as

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Continental drift

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Where does sea-floor spreading take place? Options: Convergent Boundaries, Transform Boundaries, Land Boundaries, Mid-Oceanic Ridges

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Mid-Oceanic Ridges

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The core is made-up of what two elements? Options: iron and nickel, iron and oxygen, nickel and silicon, oxygen and silicon

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iron and nickel

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What is the thinnest layer of the earth’s composition?

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crust

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The thickest layer of the earth is the 

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mantle

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When the crust sinks down into the mantle, what happens to it?

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It melts.

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The order of the earth’s compositional layers from most dense to least dense are: Inner Core, Crust, Mantle and Outer Core, Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core, Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle and Crust, Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core and Mantle.

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Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle and Crust

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What type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally? Options: divergent, convergent, transform, uplift

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transform