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Earth's Systems

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?
a)
Tectonic plates
b)
Puzzles
c)
Earthquakes
2.
What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
a)
Core
b)
Mantle
c)
Crust
3.
The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ____________.
a)
Ring of Earth
b)
Ring of Fire
c)
Ring of Stone
d)
Ring of Diamond
4.

This famous fault in California has a lot of earthquakes!

a)

New Madrid

b)

Denali Fault

c)

Ramapo Seismic Zone

d)

San Andreas Fault

5.

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Transform

6.

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Slide/Transform

7.

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Slide/Transform

8.
What is a divergent boundary? 
a)
two plates moving towards each other
b)
two plates grinding/sliding past each other.
c)
two plates moving away from each other
d)
plates that don't move at all
9.
What forms at the divergent boundary? 
a)
deep-ocean trench
b)
mid-ocean Ridge
c)
land ridge
d)
the Pacific Ocean
10.
Plates move away from one another at ___________ boundaries.
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
volcanic
d)
submerged
11.
Plates slide grind/slide  past one another at ____________ boundaries.
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
submerged
12.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
13.
What is the term for the process by which a heavier, denser plate slides under a less dense plate?
a)
plate boundary
b)
submersion
c)
accretion
d)
subduction
14.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subducting
15.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
submerged
16.
At which plate boundary is crust neither created nor destroyed?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
convergent
c)
transform
d)
submerged
17.
The lithospheric plates are constantly moving at a rapid rate.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
Some volcanoes are formed without being near plate boundaries.  These are known as
a)
deep ocean trenches
b)
subduction zones
c)
faults
d)
hot spots
19.
Which process occurres at a convergernt plate boundary?
a)
sea-floor spreading
b)
subduction
20.
What is the name of the area around the Pacific Plate in which many earthquakes occur and volcanoes are formed?
a)
San Andres Fault
b)
Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Himalaya Mt. Range
d)
Ring of Fire
21.
The Himalaya Mountains were formed by the collision of 2 continental plates.
a)
True
b)
False
22.
What causes tectonic plates to move along the Earth's surface?
a)
wind
b)
ocean currents
c)
convection in the mantle
d)
expansion of the Earth
23.

Which layer contains the gases we breathe?

a)

atmosphere

b)

lithosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

mesosphere

24.

Which layer is shown in yellow?

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

outer core

d)

inner core

25.

Which layer is shown in orange?

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

outer core

d)

inner core

26.

Which layer is shown in red?

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

outer core

d)

inner core

27.

Which layer is shown in brown?

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

outer core

d)

inner core

28.

Which layer is made of "flowing" solid rock (think clay or pudding)?

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

outer core

d)

inner core

29.
Tectonic plates are made up of continental crust and ________ crust.
a)
continental
b)
oceanic
c)
plates
d)
mantle
30.
Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic plates?
a)
outer core
b)
inner core
c)
asthenosphere
d)
lithosphere

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