Earth Science Chapter 5

What are earth's three main layers?

• Core, mantle, and surface

• Core, mantle, and crust

• Inner core, outer core, mantle

• Upper mantle, lower mantle, crust

The portion of the Earth that we live on is called the 

• Mantle
• Core
• Crust
• Gravity

Continent sized slabs that make up the crust and upper mantle

• core

• crust

• plates

Plate movement is when:

• Earth's plates move very slowly across Earth's surface on a thin layer of partly melted mantle

• There is a break in the Earth's crust

• Land slides into the ocean floor

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

What layers Earth form a rocky shell?

• Crust

• Upper Mantle

• Lower Mantle

• Core

There are about ​ (a)   huge rocky slabs called ​ (b)   that form the rocky shell of Earth.

• 20
• plates
• 10
• 3
• pieces
• landslides
• crust

Which of the following is NOT true?

• Plates can move past each other

• Plates can move away from each other

• Plates can push against one another

• Plates do not move

When plates (a)   they reshape the land and ocean floor.

When Plates push past each other, ________ can occur.

• Landslides

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Mountains