Science Geology

Which state of matter is the earth's inner core?

• plasma

• liquid

• solid

• gas

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Which earth layer is made up of the upper mantle and the crust?

• core

• lower mantle

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

Which scientist is credited with the Theory of Plate Tectonics (modern version of the Theory of Continental Drift)?

• Alfred Wegener

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Lyell

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What is geology?

• the study of rocks

• the study of history

• the study of maps

• the study of earth

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What was an evidence for plate tectonics that was claimed by the author of the theory?

• plate measurements

• knowledge of the mantle

• fossils on the coasts

• the movie Ice Age

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Uniformitarianism states that the processes that formed the earth are

• always at the same gradual rate

• natural

• changing based on certain conditions

• always in the same ways

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Old-earth (or deep-time) geologists believe the earth to be ______________ years old.

• millions of

• several thousand

• billions of

• hundreds of

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This layer of the earth is the thickest part

• crust

• outer core

• mantle

• inner core

This layer of the earth is the thinnest part

• crust

• outer core

• mantle

• inner core

Marie Tharp is credited with

• taking sonar measurements of ocean depths.

• being the first woman scientist

• translating Isaac Newton's Principia

• mapping the Atlantic seafloor.