Earth's Movement Review

The Layer of the Earth that is a solid metal is...

• Crust

• Mantel

• lithosphere

• inner core

Name the layers of the Earth in descending order.

• crust, inner core, outer core, lower mantle

• inner core, outer core, mantel, crust

• crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core

Shaking of the ground caused by the sudden

Release of energy in the Earth’s lithosphere

• Earthquake

• continental drift theory

• Pangea

The thinnest layer of the Earth

• mantle

• inner core

• outer core

• crust

The place where two plates move away from each other

• divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• transform fault boundary

• Pangea

One large land mass or super continent

• convergent boundary

• Pangaea

• divergent boundary

• lithosphere

A place where two plates meet and collide

• divergent boundary

• transform fault boundary

• convergent boundary

• Pangaea

A section of Earth that includes the crust and the solid upper mantle

• lithosphere

• Pangaea

• Asthenosphere

• core

A layer of molten rock in the upper mantle

• lithosphere

• crust

• outer core

• Asthenosphere

A chain of mountains that run through the world’s oceans

• Mid- Ocean Ridge

• Himalaya mountains

• rift

• ocean floor spreading