Basics of the Earth Exam

The inner most part of the Earth layers _____________________________________________________

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Plates

• Inner Core

The process of wind, rain, water, temperature changes, and animals causing the breakdown of rocks into small pieces known as _____________________________________________________

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Plates

• Weathering and Erosion

The movement of heated mantle material that rises when it't hot and sinks when it is cool is called ____________________________________________________________________

• Convection Currents

• Rocks

• Metaphoric Rocks

• Hydrosphere

Alfred Wegener proposed this theory in 1912 ______________________________________________

• Theory of Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

• Convergent Boundaries

• Igneous Rocks

When two plates come together and form volcanoes and mountains _____________________________________________________

• Convergent Boundaries

• Divergent Boundaries

• Transform Boundaries

• Weathering and Erosion

Air temperature impacts the evaporation of lakes and streams are interactions between the _____________________________ & _____________________________

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Flooding moves soil and rock to new places are interactions between the _____________________________ & _____________________________

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The lithosphere (crust) is broken up into larger and smaller _________________________________________

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Plates

• Convection Currents

The geosphere contains all the ____________________________________ on Earth.

• Atmosphere

• rocks

• Plates

• Biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which rocks are formed by magma or lava cooling? _______________________________________________

• Igneous Rocks

• Metamorphic Rocks

• Sedimentary Rocks

• Convection Currents