6th Grade Science Pre, Mid, Post Test

The layer of Earth below the crust

• Mantle

• Topsoil

• Bedrock

• Subsoil

The crust that is under the oceans

• Oceanic crust

• Continental Crust

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

The solid layer of crust that seems firmly attached to earth

• Mantle

• Topsoil

• Bedrock

• Subsoil

The layer of molten iron and nickel just below the mantle

• Oceanic crust

• Continental Crust

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

The crust that lies under the land

• Oceanic crust

• Continental Crust

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

A section of the lithsophere that floats on the hot, soft rocks of the mantle

• Plate

• fault

• plate tectonics

• ridge

The model that explains how earth's plates create landforms as they move

• Plate

• fault

• plate tectonics

• ridge

A break in the Earth's crust

• Plate

• fault

• plate tectonics

• ridge

The process by which molten rock flows up and outward through a rift to form ridges of new crust on the ocean floor

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Folding

• Lithosphere

The slow movement of Earth's plates that carries continents or parts of continents toward or away from one another.

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Folding

• Lithosphere