WorksheetsINTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH & PLATE TECTONICS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
The Earth's Mantle is made up of?
A solid layer of Iron and Nickel
A molten (liquid) layer of of Iron and Nickel
A solid layer of Granite and Basalt
A solid/plastic layer of Peridotite that moves over time through the process of convection
Heat transfer within a fluid takes place by
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Sublimation
When a continental plate collides with a oceanic plate which plate is subducted (goes under)?
continental
oceanic
What happens to a plate that is subducted (goes under)?
it melts
it freezes
Geologists believe that millions of years ago all the continents were united and formed which supercontinent?
Gondwanaland
Pangaea
Eurasia
Atlantis
What type of boundary is this?
convergent
divergent
transform
What type of boundary is this?
convergent
divergent
transform
What type of boundary is this?
convergent
divergent
transform
