Earth History: Unit 5

In which part of the mantle would you expect temperature and pressure to be the greatest?

• Asthenosphere

• Mesosphere

• Outer Crust

• Inner Core

Absolute ages of rocks are found from

• Radioactive Dating

• The Law of Superposition

• Index Fossils

• Relative order of rock layers

Which is NOT evidence for the theory of plate tectonics?

• The way that the shapes of some continents fit together

• The location of Earth's volcanoes

• The buildup of sedimentary rock layers

• The distribution of certain fossils

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What type of information did geologists use to develop the geologic time scale?

• Lithosphere

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

• Continental Drift

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Select ALL CONVERGENT Boundaries

• Magma Rises to the surface

• Rocks on either side of the boundary are the same age

• Associated with lots of volcanoes

• Plates moving apart

• Mountain building on land

Select ALL DIVERGENT Boundaries

• Magma rises to the surface

• Forms new oceans

• Plates moving apart

• Associated with oceanic trenches

• Mountain building on land

The diagram to the right represents a cross section of a portion of the Earth’s crust showing four different possibilities of earthquake zones. At which location would earthquakes be least likely to occur?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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