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Geoscience Quiz 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the correct order of the layers of the Earth from the outside going in?

a)

Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core

b)

Mantle, Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core

c)

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

d)

Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core, Mantle

2.

What layer of the earth is thickest?

a)

Crust

b)

Mantle

c)

Outer Core

d)

Inner Core

3.

What layer of the Earth is the thinnest?

a)

Crust

b)

Mantle

c)

Outer Core

d)

Inner Core

4.

What two layers make up the lithosphere?

a)

Crust and Upper Mantle

b)

Crust and Outer Core

c)

Crust and Lower Mantle

d)

Lower Mantle and Upper Mantle

5.

What layers make up the asthenosphere?

a)

Crust and Upper Mantle

b)

Crust and Lower Mantle

c)

Both parts of the Mantle

d)

Lower Mantle and Core

6.

Who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift?

a)

Harry Hess

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

Mrs. G

d)

Albert Einstein

7.

Wegener used four pieces of evidence to prove his theory, which below is INCORRECT?

a)

Evidence of glaciers

b)

Artifacts from ancient people

c)

Fit of continents

d)

Fossils data

e)

Examining rocks and mountains

8.

What was the once supercontinent called?

a)

Gondwana

b)

Botswana

c)

Laurasia

d)

Pangea

9.

The Earth's crust and upper Mantle are broken into _______ which always move.

a)

Plates

b)

Trenches

c)

Currents

d)

Zones

10.

Volcanos and Earthquakes are caused by ___________.

a)

Global Warming

b)

Earth's Gravitational Poles

c)

Plate Boundary Interactions

d)

Tsunamis

11.

Divergent plate boundaries move ________.

a)

Toward one another

b)

Apart from one another

c)

Sliding against one another

d)

Under one another

12.

Transform plate boundaries move _________.

a)

Toward one another

b)

Apart from one another

c)

Sliding against one another

d)

Under one another

13.

Convergent plate boundaries move ________.

a)

Toward one another

b)

Apart from one another

c)

Sliding against one another

d)

Under one another

14.

Subduction zones occur when one plate moves ________ another.

a)

Toward

b)

Away

c)

Beside

d)

Under

15.

A _______ is someone who studies rocks and the structure and history of the Earth.

a)

Biologist

b)

Astronomer

c)

Geologist

d)

Meteorologist

16.

The mantle is solid but flows like a liquid due to ________.

a)

Heat and pressure

b)

Weathering and erosion

c)

Evaporation and condensation

d)

Friction and inertia

17.

Heat from deep in the Earth is transferred to the crust creating a cycle of heating and cooling through ___________.

a)

Conduction currents in the ocean

b)

Convection currents in the Mantle

c)

Radiation from the Core

d)

Evaporation from the mid-ocean ridges

18.

Mountains form at _________ boundaries.

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

d)

Subduction

19.

Mid-ocean ridges form at ________ boundaries.

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

d)

Subduction

20.

Trenches occur at ________ boundaries.

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

d)

Subduction