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Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...
a)
Pangea
b)
Continental Drift
c)
Natural Selection
d)
Gravity
2.
A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....
a)
Pull apart
b)
Come together
c)
Slide past each other
d)
subducting
3.
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....
a)
Convergent Boundary
b)
Divergent Boundary
c)
Transform Boundary
d)
Plate Boundary
4.
What type of plate boundary is this?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Plate
5.
What type of event will occur at this boundary?
a)
Earthquake
b)
Volcano Eruption
c)
Tornado
d)
Mountain Building
6.
Islands can from from magma which is pushed up at a __________ plate boundary
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
7.
Mountains are created when....
a)
Two continental plates collide
b)
Two oceanic plates pull apart
c)
An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
d)
Two continental plates pull apart
8.
What are the two kinds of crust?
a)
lithospheric and asthenospheric
b)
silicon based and iron based
c)
continental and oceanic
d)
outer and inner
9.
Which layer of Earth is the hottest?
a)
lithosphere
b)
asthenosphere
c)
outer core
d)
inner core
10.
The soft layer of the mantle on which pieces of lithosphere move is called
a)
mesosphere
b)
lithosphere
c)
asthenosphere
d)
outer core
11.
Which layer of Earth is made up partly of crust and partly of mantle material?
a)
asthenosphere
b)
crust
c)
lithosphere
d)
mantle
12.
Pressure increases with depth toward the center of Earth.  In which layer would you expect pressure to be the greatest?
a)
crust
b)
mantle
c)
outer core
d)
inner core
13.
Earth's solid inner core is surrounded by the hot, molten metal of which layer?
a)
lithosphere
b)
outer core
c)
crust
d)
mantle
14.
Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic plates?
a)
outer core
b)
inner core
c)
asthenosphere
d)
lithosphere
15.
From the outside to the inside, the correct order of the layer of the Earth is
a)
Core, Mantle, Crust
b)
Crust, Core, Mantle
c)
Crust, Mantle, Geosphere
d)
Crust, Mantle, Core
16.
Earth's crust is broken into large pieces called
a)
Continents
b)
Countries
c)
Tectonic plates
d)
Oceans
17.

How are the materials of the Earths core different from those of the crust (in general)?

a)

They are harder

b)

They are more dense

c)

They are older

d)

They are darker in color

18.

Which area of the Earth is least dense ?

a)

Outer core

b)

inner core

c)

mantle

d)

crust

19.

Which things increase as depth increases into the Earth?

a)

time

b)

Pressure

c)

temperature

d)

density

20.

How do scientists know the Earth has layers?

a)

Drilling into the mantle

b)

Volcanoes

c)

Seismic waves data

d)

ocean waves

21.

What process is the pictures showing?

a)

comprehension

b)

mantle

c)

Earth's layers

d)

convection

e)

melting

22.

What processes causes tectonic plates move?

a)

mountain building

b)

earthquakes

c)

convection currents

d)

water cycle

e)

subduction zones

23.

What phenomena takes place that results in the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges?

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Inner Core turbulence

c)

plate tectonics

d)

erosion of mountain ridges

e)

magma rising to the surface

24.

The heat from the interior of the Earth is very, very slowly being lost. Where is it losing this thermal energy?

a)

Earth's surface

b)

Earth's oceans

c)

Earth's moon

d)

Earth's poles

e)

Earth's equator

25.
P waves move through____
a)
Solids only
b)
Liquids only
c)
Solids and Liquids
d)
None of these
26.
S waves move through
a)
Solids only
b)
Liquids only
c)
Solids and liquids
d)
None of these
27.

Which of the following metals are present in Earth's Core? (Select all that apply)

a)

Nickel

b)

Steel

c)

Aluminum

d)

Iron

e)

Titanium

28.

Which is more dense?

a)

Continental Crust

b)

Oceanic Crust

29.
How is new oceanic crust formed?
a)
It forms continually as lava rises from the mantle at mid-ocean ridges and cools into hard rock.
b)
 It is formed and solidified over the next few billion years as Earth slowly cooled.
30.

What does mantle convection cause to happen?

a)

Cool material to rise

b)

Warm material to sink

c)

Fossils to form

d)

Tectonic plate motion

31.

What is a cause of sea-floor spreading?

a)

depositing layers

b)

diverging tectonic plates

c)

heat and pressure

d)

mountain formation

32.

Which feature forms when two plates of different densities collide?

a)

a mid-ocean ridge

b)

subduction zone

c)

rift valley

d)

transform boundary

33.

Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?

a)

Harry Hess

b)

Galileo Galilee

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Alfred Wegener

34.

Evidence to support Wegeners claim of Pangaea includes

a)

Puzzle like fit of continents

b)

Fossils matching on different continents

c)

Matching rock layers on different continents

d)

all of these

35.

In sea-floor spreading, where does molten material rise from the mantle and erupt?

a)

Along the edges of all the continents

b)

along the mid-ocean ridge

c)

in deep-ocean trenches

d)

at the north and south poles

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