Inside the Earth

Which of the following is not a planet in our solar system?

• Venus

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Pluto

Nickel and Iron make up which part of the earth?

• lithosphere

• core

• mantle

• athenosphere

Humans live in which part of the earth?

• biosphere

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

Alfred Wegener presented which new idea?

• Hydrologic Cycle

• Continental Drift

• Solar Rotation

• Chemical Weathering

Which of the following means “all earth”?

• glaciation

• humus

• erosion

• pangea

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that plates move?

• erosion

• spreading

• sliding past each other

• collision

Which type of boundary is where the plates slide past one another?

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

This is the place above where the earthquake begins:

• focus

• epicenter

• seismograph

• middle

This machine measures the size of waves created by an earthquake

• focus

• epicenter

• seismograph

• fault scale

Where are the most active volcanoes are located?

• in the desert

• in the Atlantic Ocean

• in the Ring of Fire

• in the North & South Poles