Physical Geography

A renewable resource will run out and it takes millions of years to form.

• True

• False

The outside layer of the earth is called ______________________.

• Core

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

What are the names of the two types of crust

• Continental and oceanic

• Ocean and upper

• Lower and upper

• Pizzaa and subway

The Earth's crust is made up of several __________ that are like puzzle pieces. 

• Puzzle pieces

• Crust parts

• Pizza crust

• Tectonic plates

What is a tectonic plate?

• A unknown continent

• A piece of the crust of Earth

• An ancient plate from the Aztec

• A plate that is stronger than iron

What causes the tectonic plates to move?

• Wind

• Convention currents

• Tides

• Lava

In the mantle magma rises and sinks, this is called ______________. 

• a conduction current

• a hot spot

• a volcanic eruption

• a convection current

What is the process which suggests that the continents are carried by convection currents in the mantle

• mantle movement

• crust circulation

• break movement

• continental drift

These pictures show evidence of the theory that the 

• ocean waves eroded the land to form continents

• Earth's crust is made of plates that are moving

• continents are large land masses floating on the oceans

• Earth was covered with ice that melted and formed oceans

What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent? 

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• Pangaea

• glacier scaring