WorksheetsEarth
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What layer is a semisolid and acts like a plastic?
a)
Lithosphere
b)
Mantle
c)
Asthenosphere
2.
The oceanic floor is made of?
a)
Granite
b)
Basalt
c)
Cookies
d)
Water
3.
The continental floor is made up of?
a)
Flowers and grass
b)
Basalt
c)
Granite
d)
Cookies
4.
The thinnest layer of the Earth is?
a)
Mantle
b)
Lithosphere
c)
Athenosphere
d)
Crust
5.
The lithosphere combines what two layers?
a)
Athenosphere & Crust
b)
Crust & Upper Mantle
c)
Mantle & Athenosphere
6.
What happens to pressure as we move from the crust to the inner core?
a)
Pressure Decreases
b)
Pressure Increases
c)
Nothing
7.
This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel
a)
Outer Core
b)
Mantle
c)
Inner Core
d)
Crust
8.
What is a divergent boundary?
a)
two plates moving towards each other
b)
two plates rubbing side to side
c)
two plates moving away from each other
d)
happens in the lithosphere
9.
What develops at the divergent boundary?
a)
San Andreas Fault
b)
Mid Ocean Ridge
c)
Land ridge
d)
Pacific Ocean
10.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
11.
Why have geologists not reached the mantle?
a)
It is too hot for humans to go there.
b)
It is too smelly for humans to go there.
c)
It doesn't have Wi-Fi so none of their instruments work.
d)
Scientists have not figured out how to time travel.
12.
Name the three types of heat transfer.
a)
conduction, convection, radiation
b)
lithosphere, conduction, x-rays
c)
ROY G BIV
d)
waves, sunlight, heat
13.
Name the boundary
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
14.
What is happening at Z?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
subduction zone
c)
transform boundary
d)
sea floor spreading
15.
Name the boundary
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
16.
Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic plates?
a)
outer core
b)
inner core
c)
asthenosphere
d)
lithosphere
17.
Why did the oceanic plate subduct?
a)
Less dense
b)
More dense
c)
Heavier
d)
Thinner
18.
Why did the continental plate get volcanoes?
a)
It is made of thicker continental crust
b)
It gets stuck and folds
c)
It has a subducted plate under it that melts
d)
It is more dense
19.
Why is there a trench in the water?
a)
Because of the basalt
b)
Because of the melting oceanic crust
c)
Because the oceanic plate is subducting making a low spot
d)
Because the oceanic plate is stuck and folds downward
20.
Why does a trench form at the boundary
a)
It folded down (crumpled)
b)
Subducted plate sunk
c)
It folded up (crumpled)
d)
All answers
21.
Why do volcanes form?
a)
From plate(s) getting stuck, pushed further, and folding
b)
From a plate subducting, melting, & rising
c)
From one plate being more dense & sinking creating a low spot
d)
All answers
22.
Where do earthquakes occur?
a)
Lithospheric plate boundaries
b)
Middle of tectonic plates
c)
All answers
23.
What is happening here?
a)
Seafloor spreading
b)
Seafloor destruction
c)
All answers
24.
What type of boundary is this?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform Fault
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