Geology Pre-assessment

The outermost layer of the earth, the crust, is:

• solid and made up of iron and nickel

• molten and made up of liquid magma

• broken into pieces and made up of rock

• solid and made up of rocks and minerals

This layer makes up most of the earth:

• crust

• mantle

• outer core

• inner core

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The earth’s crust is thinnest:

• at the polar ice caps

• at mountain ranges

• at the continents

• at the bottom of the ocean

Alfred Wegener’s theory of Pangea was supported by what type of evidence?

• fossils, rock layers, and continent edges

• cavemen rock paintings and artifacts

• ancient maps and similar plant species

• video and computer simulations

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The place where the edges of two tectonic plates meet is called a:

• Subduction

• Divergent

• Boundary

• Tectonic

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A model of a convergent boundary is shown. What most likely happens as the plates move toward each other?

• a mountain forms

• an earthquake occurs

• the ocean floor widens

• magma comes to the surface

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The San Andreas Fault is an example of a plate boundary where two plates slide past each other. What most likely happens when the pressure built up by the plate movement is released?

• a mountain forms

• an earthquake occurs

• the ocean floor widens

• magma comes to the surface

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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain range that is the longest range in the world, forms at what type of boundary?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• all of the above

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Earth’s plates move as a result of:

• expanding and contracting of the inner core

• temperatures of the outer core

• circulating magma of the mantle

• expanding and contracting of the crust

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Based on the mineral identification chart, which of the following minerals belongs in square Y of the flow chart?

• mica

• graphite

• magnetite

• hornblende