What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth’s layers?

crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

crust, outer core, inner core, mantle

mantle, outer core, inner core, crust

outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

along the edges of all the continents.

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

New crust is underwater where it sinks

New crust breaks more easily than old crust

The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

continent-to-continent convergent

Mountains form from ...

plates sliding past one another

plates moving away from each other

The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

Convection in the Asthenosphere

What two mechanisms do scientists think help convection currents in mantle move plates?

Action and Reaction tectonic forces

Gravitational and Rotational pull

A subduction zone is formed...

when one tectonic plate sinks below another

at every type of convergent plate boundary

at every type of divergent plate boundary

When does a divergent plate boundary form?

when a denser plate sinks below a more buoyant plate

when two plates slide past each other

The asthenosphere makes up the?

Upper portion of the outer core

Inner portion of the outer core

What happens to density as we move from the crust to the inner core?

Density decreases and then increases

What is this boundary?

Transform, Where two tectonic plates slide past each other

Convergent, Where two tectonic plates come together

Divergent, Where two tectonic plates move apart

What is true about density? (More than 1 answer)

It is the amount of matter in a specific volume

When most things are heated they become less dense

When most thing are cooled they become more dense

How is gravity important to Earth?

Generally more dense objects have more mass which causes them to have a greater attraction of gravity. This means the more dense objects attracted the more dense objects. This caused the inner layers of Earth to be most dense. The gravitational attraction is still pulling matter to the center of the Earth.

That is the most outrageously incorrect statement I have ever heard about how the layers of the Earth formed and how it is affecting Earth today.

What is the theory of plate tectonics? (More than 1 answer)

Earth is made up giant sections of the lithosphere (crust+upper mantle) that floats on top of the asthenosphere and these are considered tectonic plates

Tectonic plates meet at places called boundaries that create cracks in the surface of the Earth

Tectonic plates are slowly moving because of the convection in the liquid mantle

The Earth's crust is one rigid layer that doesn't move

All of the landforms on Earth were formed when the crust cooled and trapped a large portion of the Earth's matter inside of the Earth

When comparing the Earth's crust to the core, the core is.....

less dense, cooler, and has more iron

less dense, hotter and less iron

If an island arc is formed, what can we assume about the plate movement?

a deep ocean trench is found along the edge of the arc

a transform fault is between the islands

the crust along the arc is longer than the volcanic islands

fossils from one plate match fossils from another

What was the geologic process that caused this mountain range to form?

two continental plates collided

movement at a transform boundary

What is true about the Earth's plates?

They are made of solid rock that can be seen if not covered by soil, rock, or water.

The are made of solid rock that can never be seen.

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divergent plate boundary

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subduction

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What new feature forms at a convergent plate boundary where two continental plates collide?

mid-ocean ridge

trench

mountain range

none of these features form

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