Plate Tectonics Test Multiple Choice

What is the inner most part of the Earth?

• Outter Core

• Inner core

• Mantle

• Crust

What layer of the Earth surrounds the inner core?

• Crust

• Mantle

• inner core

• Outter core

Which layer of earth is closest to Earth's crust?

• Inner core

• outter core

• upper mantle

• lower mantle

What is the layer of earth that all organisms live on?

• Crust

• lower mantle

• inner core

• lithosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the Lithosphere

• The whole mantle

• The crust and upper mantle

• The inner and outter core.

• The outter core and crust.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the asthenosphere?

• The layer below the lithosphere

• the core

• the mantle

• the crust and mantle

What is the Contenintal crust?

• plates below the mantle

• plates below the ocean

• plates below the core

• plates below the continents

What is oceanic crust?

• plates below the continents

• plates below the core

• plates below the oceans

• plates below the mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are convection currents?

• Hot magma moving side to side because of heating

• hot magma moving up the down because of heating

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What are convergent boundaries?

• Plates that are separating

• plates that are sliding past eachother

• plates that are colliding with eachother