Plate Tectonics Test Review

What are the two kinds of crust that the Earth has?

• Oceanic and Crustatious Crust
• Oceanic and Continental Crust
• Optic and Continental Crust

Which layer of Earth would have the greatest density?

• upper mantle
• lower mantle
• inner core
• outer core

Which layer of Earth is characterized by rock that is plastic, or soft enough to flow?

• asthenosphere
• crust
• lithosphere
• inner core

Which sublayer is made up of the crust and upper mantle?

• Inner Core
• Outer Core
• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere

Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust?

• true

• false

Which is the correct order of the Earths layers?

• inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

• crust, inner core, outer core, mantle

• crust, mantle, inner core, outercore

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

The INNER core is solid because of it's intensely high ________.

• Pressure
• Temperature

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• pangaea

• glacier scaring

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Why was Wegener's theory not accepted?

• He had no proof of how they were moving
• He had no evidence
• He was married
• He was not a Scientist

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5