Earth Layers

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
• Antartica and Africa

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What heats material in the mantle causing the convection cycle?

• Solar Radiation
• The Earths Core
• Fire
• Hard Work

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What process creates mountains?

• The Sun 
• Coriolis Effect
• Ocean Currents 
• The Convection Cycle

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This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core

Which of these layers is ALL solid iron and nickle?

• inner core
• outer core
• lithosphere
• mesosphere

Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust
• Oceanic crust
• Asthenosphere
• Lithosphere

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

• The would all increase
• The would all decrease.
• They would stay the same.  
• Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase. 

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The physical layer of Earth made of solid rock and soil is called the ___________. 

• mesosphere
• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• mantle

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Where does the heat come from that drives this convection current in the mantle? 

• The sun
• The crust
• the mantle
• the core

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