(CK-12) Ch. 2: Earth On the Move - Test Review

The dense, lower part of the mantle is called the...

• ...mesosphere.

• ...asthenosphere.

• ...lithosphere.

• ...outer core.

The outermost, rigid physical layer that is made of the crust and upper mantle is called the...

• ...lithosphere.

• ...asthenosphere.

• ...mesosphere.

• ...inner core.

The hot, liquid layer between the mesosphere and Earth's center is called the...

• ...outer core.

• ...inner core.

• ...lithosphere.

• ...crust.

The process by which new oceanic crust is created as older crust is pulled away is called...

• ...subduction.

• ...seafloor spreading.

• ...convection.

• ...abduction.

The solid, superheated, and highly dense center of the planet is called the...

• ...outer core.

• ...inner core.

• ...lithosphere.

• ...mesosphere.

A boundary where two plates move toward each other is called a...

• ...convergent boundary.

• ...divergent boundary.

• ...transform boundary.

• ...omnidirectional boundary.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The soft layer of the upper mantle on which tectonic plates move is called the...

• ...asthenosphere.

• ...mesosphere.

• ...outer core.

• ...inner core.

Pieces of the lithosphere that are constantly in motion are called...

• ...tectonic plates.

• ...oreo cookies.

• ...subduction zones.

• ...crustal bodies.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The claim that continents can move apart from one another and have done so in the past is called...

• ...continental drift.

• ...plate tectonics.

• ...convection.

• ...subduction.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A boundary where two plates slide past each other is called a...

• ...transform boundary.

• ...divergent boundary.

• ...convergent boundary.

• ...rubber band boundary.