6th Science EOC Review 3

What is the name of plate 7?

• African Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• North American Plate

• Antarctic Plate

Mountain ranges are caused by which type of plate movement?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

What type of movement occurs at transform plate boundaries?

• Plates collide

• Plates move away from each other

• Plates slide past each other

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is caused by -

• Plates moving away from each other

• Plates sliding past each other

• Plates colliding into each other

The San Andreas Fault was created by which type of plate boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

The thinnest layer of the Earth is the ___________.

• mantle
• crust
• core

What is the thickest layer of the Earth?

• the crust
• the mantle
• the outer core
• the inner core

Why is the inner core solid?

• its unknown
• what it's made of
• the pressure
• it is colder than the outer core

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?

• crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

Rock that forms when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock