Chapter 2: Physical Geography Test 2024

The thinnest layer of the Earth is the ___________.

• Core

• Mantle

• Crust

What is the core made of?

• Copper

• Aluminum

• Iron

• Iron and Nickle

The tectonic plates make up the

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere

Pangea is known as the ______

• Supercontinent

• Greatest Continent

• Big Continent

• Almighty Continent

A boundary that has two plate colliding is also called:

• Oceanic

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

A boundary where two plate slide past each other:

• Oceanic

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divrgent

A boundary where two plates are dividing:

• Transform

• Oceanic

• Divergent

• Convergent

What is the movement of weathered material (sediment) from one place to another by wind, water, gravity, or ice?

• Mechanical Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Weathering

What is the breakdown of the Earth’s crust into sediment called?

• Washing

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

What is the instrument used by scientists to measure the intensity of an earthquake?

• Seismogram

• Seismologist

• Seismograph

• Seismology