Quiz Lithosphere Part 1

Which scientist is credited with proposing the ideas that led to the development of the plate tectonics theory?

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Alfred Wegener

What is the earth's only liquid layer?

• Inner Core

• Asthenospher

• Mantle

• Outer Core

What is NOT likely to happen at a divergent boundary?

• Mountain Formation

• Rift valley

• Seafloor spreading

• Volcano formation

Mountain formation can result when which of the following occurs?

• Two oceanic plates collide.

• Two continental plates collide.

• Two oceanic plates spread apart.

• None of the above.

What type of crust is found under the continents?

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic crust

• Geologic crust

• None of the above

What leads to the creation of island arcs?

• Collision of two oceanic plates.

• Collision of two continental plates.

• Collision of a continental and an oceanic plate.

• All of the above.

This solid layer of the earth is made of mostly iron and nickel

• Crust

• Inner Core

• Mantle

• Outer Core

The tectonic plates float on which semiliquid layer?

• Asthenosphere

• Crust

• Inner Core

• Lithosphere

Mid-ocean ridges are places where tectonic plates are doing what?

• Colliding

• Sliding past each other

• Spreading apart

• None of the above

Which of these statements is correct?

• Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.

• Continental crust is thinner than oceanic crust.

• Oceanic crust is thicker than continental crust.

• Continental and oceanic crusts have the same thickness.