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WorksheetsEarth's Forces Part 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which are the following is evidence of plate movement?
a)
Coast lines of different continents look like they could fit together like puzzle pieces.
b)
Similar plant and animal fossils have been found on continents separated by thousands of miles of ocean.
c)
Modern technology has allowed us to measure the movement of plates.
d)
Scientists have detailed journal writings from people who witnessed Pangaea.
2.
What is this a picture of?
a)
The United States
b)
Pangea
c)
Europe
d)
none of the above
3.
Which layer of Earth is located above the outer core?
a)
crust
b)
inner core
c)
mantle
d)
lithosphere
4.
Where are there many earthquakes and volcanoes?
a)
South America
b)
Hawaii
c)
Ring of Fire
d)
The United States
5.
Which US state was formed by a Hot Spot?
a)
Alaska
b)
Hawaii
c)
South Carolina
d)
Iowa
6.
The four layers that make-up the earth’s composition are
a)
Crust, Lithosphere, Mesosphere and Core
b)
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mantle and Core
c)
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core
d)
Mantle, Outer Core, Lithosphere and Crust
7.
Which layer(s) of the Earth make up the asthenosphere?
a)
Part of the mantle
b)
Crust, mantle, Core
c)
Crust and upper mantle
d)
Only the crust
8.
Which plate boundary does not create volcanoes?
a)
transform
b)
convergent
c)
divergent
9.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
submergent
10.
The crust and the uppermost mantle make up the ________________.
a)
lithosphere
b)
asthenosphere
c)
atmosphere
d)
hydrosphere
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