CKLA G4 Unit 5: Geology, Lesson 2/3

Seismic wave is used correctly in which sentence?

• The seismic waves were caused when the girl threw the rock in the pond.

• I use a curling iron to get seismic waves in my hair.

Pressure is the weight or force produced when something presses or pushes against something else.

• True

• False

heavy, dense rock formed from cooled, hardened lava

• Magma

• Rock

• Basalt

• Basin

red-hot melted rock that has erupted above Earth’s crust from deep underground

• Lava

• Magma

Basin: a large area in the earth that is lower than the area around it.

What part of speech is basin?

• Verb: action word

• Adjective: describing word

• Noun: person, place, or thing

An ocean trench is a narrow, extremely ________ formed when the seafloor dips down as one tectonic plate slides under another

• deep valley

• shallow valley

Which of the following is a theory explained in Chapter 2?

• Lava cools into basalt.

• There are very large fish in deep ocean trenches.

• The Earth's surface changes with plate tectonics.

Plate tectonics is a theory that Earth’s crust are broken up into sections (like puzzle pieces) that fit together but ___________.

• stay still

• move against each other

Exert is used correctly in which sentences?

• I needed to exert the groceries into the house.

• He had to exert all his strength to move the table.

• The exert was not fun to play.

• My doctor told me not to exert myself too much while shoveling snow.

Put Earth's layers in order from the most inner to outer.

• Inner core, mantle, crust, outer core

• Inner core, outer core, crust, mantle

• Outer core, inner core, mantle, crust

• Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust