QUIZ#1:EARTH LITHOSPHERE AND TECTONIC PLATES

How would you compare the oceanic and continental crust?

• The oceanic crust is thicker and denser than the continental crust.
• The oceanic and continental crust are identical in composition and density.
• The oceanic crust is thinner and denser than the continental crust.
• The oceanic and continental crust are both made of the same type of rock.

What will happen when an oceanic crust and continental crust collide to one another?

• The oceanic crust will sink under the continental crust
• Both crusts will merge to form a larger crust
• The continental crust will sink under the oceanic crust
• Both crusts will repel each other

What composes the Earth’s lithosphere?

• Water and gases
• Crust and upper mantle
• Core and crust
• Mantle and core

What type of crust is made up of granite rocks?

• Oceanic crust
• Continental crust
• Mantle
• Outer core

Which crust is thick but with low density?

• Continental crust
• Oceanic crust
• Mantle
• Outer core

What do you call the smaller pieces the earth’s crust?

• Tectonic Plates
• Continents
• Islands
• Mountains

What is the name of the Permian supercontinent believed to be the origin of all the continents today?

• Pangaea
• Gondwana
• Laurasia
• Rodinia

What theory explains the breakup of Pangea into several continents?

• Theory of Relativity
• Quantum Theory
• Big Bang Theory
• Plate Tectonics Theory

Which of the following tectonic plates is a major plate?

• Nazca Plate
• Philippine Sea Plate
• Pacific Plate
• Juan de Fuca Plate

What makes the plates move farther apart?

• water in the ocean where the plates are located.

• movement of the magma under the plates.

• boiling water in the mantle.

• heat of the inner core