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Type of plate boundaries and the layers of the Earth

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the two types of crust?

a)

lithosphere and asthenosphere

b)

Lower and upper mantle

c)

continental and oceanic

d)

I am not sure

2.

which is the hottest layer of the earth?

a)

outer core

b)

the mantle

c)

inner core

d)

I am not sure

3.

How thick is the is the asthenosphere?

a)

25 miles thick

b)

400 miles thick

c)

100 miles thick

d)

I am not sure

4.

How hot is the inner core?

a)

7,000 degrees fahrenheit

b)

9,000 degrees fahrenheit

c)

2,000 degrees fahrenheit

d)

I am not sure

5.

Ture or false subduction occurs when the ocean floor sinks back into the mantle through deep-ocean trenches.

a)

Ture

b)

False

6.

In what year did Wegener proposed the theory of the continental drift?

a)

1916

b)

1960

c)

1906

d)

1911

7.

Scientist now believe that about years ago, a super-continent know as Pangea

a)

300 million years ago

b)

200 million years ago

c)

I am not sure

d)

250 million years ago

8.

Pangea means " " and this super-continent was made up of all of the continets on Earth

a)

Whole fruit

b)

Whole place

c)

Whole Earth

d)

I am not sure

9.

How many layers are inside the Earth?

a)

I am not sure

b)

6

c)

9

d)

5