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Layers of the Earth and Earth Movement

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Earth’s outer core is liquid, but the inner core is solid because it is ____________.

a)

cooler

b)

hotter

c)

under intense pressure

d)

made of different materials

2.

Scientists have learned that Earth’s continents are __________.

a)

rising

b)

fixing

c)

moving

d)

dropping

3.

The idea that large landmasses move across Earth is called ________.

a)

earthquakes

b)

continental drift

c)

sea floor spreading

d)

the mantle

4.

Where are most mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes located?

a)

in the middle of a continent

b)

on the sea floor

c)

in the middle of a plate

d)

at the boundary between plates

5.

Subduction can occur at ________ boundaries.

a)

convergent

b)

divergent

c)

continental

d)

sea floor

6.

Wegener’s Continental Drift theory (1912) suggested __________.

a)

a. the continents are still moving

b)

b. the earth was one large land mass

c)

Both a and b

d)

sea floor spreading

7.

Which one of the following statements does NOT support the Continental Drift Theory?

a)

fossil correlation

b)

evidence of potato crops were found in both N. America and Europe

c)

area from the poles showed evidence of being covered by ice

d)

similar rock layers from edges of S. America and Africa

8.

Which layer of the Earth allows movement of the plates because it is made of liquid rock?

a)

outer core

b)

lithosphere

c)

asthenosphere

d)

crust

9.

____________ can only occur at divergent boundaries.

a)

Sea floor spreading

b)

Earthquakes

c)

Volcanic eruption

d)

crustal movement

10.

In Latin, ‘Tectonic’ means _______.

a)

landforms

b)

earthquake

c)

none of the answers

d)

builder

11.

Which diagram represents subduction occurring at a convergent boundary? ______

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

12.

Which diagram represents sea-floor spreading? _______

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

13.

In which diagram is a mid-ocean ridge represented? _______

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

14.

Which diagram represents what is currently occurring in Africa’s Great Rift Valley?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

15.

Which diagram represents a transform-fault boundary? ________

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

16.

The thinnest layer of Earth

a)

mantle

b)

crust

c)

inner core

d)

outer core

17.

place where two plates grind past one another

a)

divergent boundary

b)

convergent boundary

c)

transform fault boundary

18.

one large land mass or super continent

a)

earthquake

b)

transform fault boundary

c)

Mid-Ocean rift

d)

Pangaea

19.

section of Earth that includes the crust

and the solid upper mantle

a)

lithosphere

b)

asthenosphere

c)

Mid-Ocean Ridge

d)

Pangaea

20.

a deep valley formed at a divergent boundary

a)

rift

b)

sea-floor spreading

c)

Pangaea

d)

continental drift