Chapter 9 Review - Earth's Changing Surface

Earth's outermost layer is the...

• crust

• mantle

• core

• plate

Oceanic crust lies beneath the ocean.

• True

• False

The edge of the continental crust has a steep drop-off called the

• edge

• boundary

• continental slope

• continental rise

The __________ is the layer that makes up most of Earth's material.

• crust

• mantle

• core

• plates

The top part of the mantle and the crust above it form the ...

• lithosphere

• hydrosphere

• chocosphere

• spherobot

Deep in the Earth the Mantle is under high __________.

• pressure

• fences

• conditions

• crusts

The mantle is solid rock but shares the characteristics of ________.

• liquids

• tacos

• solids

• puppies

The convection currents in the mantle cause hotter rock to flow up and cooler rock to flow down.

• True

• False

At the very center of the Earth is the ______.

• core

• crust

• mantle

• lithosphere

Scientists use _________ to measure vibrations from earthquakes.

• seismographs

• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

• Seismodotropolis

• seismotrons