Dynamic Earth Practice Quiz

What layer is the thin, outermost layer of Earth?

• Core

• Mantle

• Crust

• Lithosphere

What type of boundary forms when 2 plates slide past one another?

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• normal boundary

Squeezing an object is an example of which of the following?

• Tension

• Compression

• Faulting

• Folding

Alfred Wegener developed the theory of Continental Drift and the supercontinent known as _________.

• Panthelassa

• Pandemonium

• Parthenon

• Pangaea

True or False: When molten rock rises up through a crack at a mid-ocean ridge, continental drift is occurring.

• true

• false

What occurs in the Mantle or Asthenosphere causing the lithosphere to move?

• Convection currents

• Continental deflection

• Radiation

• Conduction

What type of boundary moves away from each other?

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

A rubber band being stretched demonstrates what stress?

• shear stress

• tension

• compression

True or False: Trace fossils are portions, such as a footprint, left behind from an animal or plant.

• true

• false

What is the bending of rock layers due to stress?

• faulting

• folding

• deformation

• subduction