magma flowing from inside the earth

What are the two types of crust?

oceanic crust, continental crust

The five PHYSICAL layers of the Earth are...

Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, Inner Core

Crust, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core

Eurasia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa

The three COMPOSITIONAL layers of the Earth are...

Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Atmosphere

Crust, Upper Mantle, Lithosphere

Upper Mantle, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere

Which of the following occurs because of convection currents?

Tectonic plates on the crust move.

Pressure in the crust increases.

Pressure in the crust decreases.

As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase.

What does the theory of continental drift state?

The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

Continents are stationary and do not move

The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

Thinner, younger and more dense than continental crust

Younger and less dense than continental crust

Older, thicker and less dense that continental crust

Bigger and younger than continental crust

Why does magma tend to rise to the surface?

It is less dense than the surrounding material.

It has large amounts of silica.

It contains very little silica.

It is denser than the surrounding material.

Most volcanoes occur at which 2 types of plate boundaries?

convergent w/ subduction and divergent

convergent w/ subduction and hot spots

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A place where two tectonic plates meet

A break in the Earth's lithosphere

A shaking of the ground cause by the movement of large rocks

An opening in the Earth's crust where magma comes up

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