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WorksheetsGeoscience Quiz 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the correct order of the layers of the Earth from the outside going in?
Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core
Mantle, Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core, Mantle
What layer of the earth is thickest?
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
What layer of the Earth is the thinnest?
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
What two layers make up the lithosphere?
Crust and Upper Mantle
Crust and Outer Core
Crust and Lower Mantle
Lower Mantle and Upper Mantle
What layers make up the asthenosphere?
Crust and Upper Mantle
Crust and Lower Mantle
Both parts of the Mantle
Lower Mantle and Core
Who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift?
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Mrs. G
Albert Einstein
Wegener used four pieces of evidence to prove his theory, which below is INCORRECT?
Evidence of glaciers
Artifacts from ancient people
Fit of continents
Fossils data
Examining rocks and mountains
What was the once supercontinent called?
Gondwana
Botswana
Laurasia
Pangea
The Earth's crust and upper Mantle are broken into _______ which always move.
Plates
Trenches
Currents
Zones
Volcanos and Earthquakes are caused by ___________.
Global Warming
Earth's Gravitational Poles
Plate Boundary Interactions
Tsunamis
Divergent plate boundaries move ________.
Toward one another
Apart from one another
Sliding against one another
Under one another
Transform plate boundaries move _________.
Toward one another
Apart from one another
Sliding against one another
Under one another
Convergent plate boundaries move ________.
Toward one another
Apart from one another
Sliding against one another
Under one another
Subduction zones occur when one plate moves ________ another.
Toward
Away
Beside
Under
A _______ is someone who studies rocks and the structure and history of the Earth.
Biologist
Astronomer
Geologist
Meteorologist
The mantle is solid but flows like a liquid due to ________.
Heat and pressure
Weathering and erosion
Evaporation and condensation
Friction and inertia
Heat from deep in the Earth is transferred to the crust creating a cycle of heating and cooling through ___________.
Conduction currents in the ocean
Convection currents in the Mantle
Radiation from the Core
Evaporation from the mid-ocean ridges
Mountains form at _________ boundaries.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
Mid-ocean ridges form at ________ boundaries.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
Trenches occur at ________ boundaries.
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Subduction
