Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics Review

The outermost layer of the Earth that contains the continents and the oceans.

• mantle
• crust
• outer core
• inner core

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The layer of rock between the Earth's core and crust. (a)  

• mantle
• outer core
• crust
• inner core

Liquid metal layer that surrounds the Earth's inner core.

• inner core
• crust
• outer core
• mantle

The plates that make up the Earth's crust that are responsible for continental drift.

• continental crust
• oceanic crust
• geologist
• tectonic plates

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Tectonic plates are still moving, causing continents to drift.

• True
• False

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The cracks in Earth's crust are called ___________.

• tectonic plates
• faults
• magma
• lava

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Mountains form from....

• Plates sliding past one another
• collision of plates
• plates moving away from each other
• none of these

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The map below shows the major tectonic plate boundaries.

Earthquakes are more common in California than they are in Texas because of the movement of which two tectonic plates?

• Pacific and North American

• North American and South American

• Asian and Atlantic

• Atlantic and Arabian

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The image shows two plates sliding past each other.

What would most likely occur at this location?

• Mountain range formed

• Earthquake occuring

• Volcanic Mountain forming

• Magma rising through Earth's faults

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The picture below shows the Himalayas, the tallest mountains in the world.  This mountain range is located between two continental tectonic plates. 

Which of the following statements best explains how these mountains formed?

• The mountains formed as two convergent plates collided, causing an upward force to lift the land over time.

• The mountains formed at a subduction zone, where two plates collide and one plate dives under the other, causing a lift of the land.

• The mountains formed at a transform boundary, where two plates slide past each other, creating a fault line and pulling land upward.

• The mountains formed as two divergent plates collided, pushing one plate upward to form mountains.

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