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WorksheetsEarth Layers and Plate Tectonics
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the layers of the Earth?
a)
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
b)
Crust, Oceanic, and Continental
c)
Metamorphic, Sedimentary, and Igneous
d)
Mantle, Currents, Core, and Crust
2.
Which layer of the Earth is made out of liquid iron and nickel?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
3.
Which layer of the Earth is made out of solid iron and nickel?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
4.
Which layer of the Earth do we live on and is as thin as the skin of an apple?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
5.
What layer of the Earth has convection currents that cause the tectonic plates to move?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
6.
The deeper you travel to the center of the Earth each layer is __________.
a)
more hot and more dense
b)
more dense and smaller
c)
more hot and louder
d)
more weak and more dense
7.
The ocean's crust is made up of ___________.
a)
basalt
b)
granite
c)
graham crackers
d)
obsidian
8.
The continental crust is made up of ______________
a)
basalt
b)
granite
c)
graham crackers
d)
obsidian
9.
Who created the Continental Drift Theory?
a)
Alfred von Wegener
b)
Harry Hess
c)
Mr. Thomsen
d)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
10.
Pangea is ___________
a)
a gigantic super-continent
b)
the seven continents we have today
c)
a place in Egypt
d)
a fossil
11.
Which of the following was NOT a piece of evidence that supported Continental Drift Theory.
a)
fossils
b)
continental fit
c)
land bridges
d)
glacial evidence
12.
Name this plate boundary.
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Continental
13.
Name this plate boundary.
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Continental
14.
Name this plate boundary.
a)
Convergent
b)
Divergent
c)
Transform
d)
Sliding
15.
#4 is the ______________
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
outer core
d)
inner core
16.
Convection currents are located in the ___________
a)
mantle
b)
crust
c)
bottom of ocean
d)
swimming pool
17.
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
a)
convection currents
b)
conduction currents
c)
ocean currents
d)
nothing, they don't move
18.
What happens at a transform plate boundary?
a)
earthquakes
b)
volcanoes
c)
mountains
d)
rift valley
19.
A range of volcanoes form on land when ____________________
a)
two oceanic crusts converge
b)
two oceanic crusts diverge
c)
oceanic crust subducts under continental crust
d)
continental crust transforms
20.
This image is an example of _______________________
a)
sea floor spreading
b)
convergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
earthquake
21.
An arc of islands form when two oceanic crusts _________________
a)
converge
b)
diverge
c)
transform
d)
break up
22.
Mountains are formed when __________________
a)
two continental crusts converge
b)
two continental crusts diverge
c)
oceanic crusts diverged
d)
crust transforms
23.
#1 is the ______________
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
core
d)
ocean
24.
#2 is the ______________
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
core
d)
ocean
25.
#3 is the ______________
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
outer core
d)
inner core
26.
Continental crust is __________ dense than ocean crust.
a)
Equal
b)
More
c)
Less
d)
Not
27.
The Earth's outer shell is composed of major and minor _____________________ that glide over the mantle.
a)
tectonic plates
b)
continents
c)
oceans
d)
mountain plates
28.
When two continental crusts diverge a ________________ forms.
a)
rift valley
b)
volcano
c)
earthquake
d)
mountain
29.
Volcanoes are formed from convergent plate boundaries that are ________________ zones.
a)
subduction
b)
horizontal
c)
end
d)
convection
30.
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of what type of plate boundary?
a)
transform
b)
divergent
c)
convergent
d)
horizontal
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