Earth Science Regents Earthquakes

As you travel from the crust to the core, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

• They would all increase

• They would all decrease.

• Nothing, the layers are made of the same material throughout

• Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

• Mountain Building

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Which layer exists as a collection of tectonic plates?

• asthenosphere

• mantle

• lithosphere

• outer core

The layer below the crust is the ____________.

• oceanic crust

• mantle

• inner core

• continental crust

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

• subducting

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What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Rift Valleys

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This layer is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Mantle

• Lithosphere

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The science that examines Earth its form and composition, and the changes it has undergone and is undergoing.

• oceanography

• Geology

• Astronomy

• Geosphere

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