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Worksheets3.1 - 3.4 Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 31mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
You live, breathe, and eat on this layer.
a)
Outer Core
b)
Inner Core
c)
Mantle
d)
Crust
2.
The core is mostly made up mostly of which elements?
a)
Oxygen and Silicon
b)
Silicon and Magnesium
c)
Nickel and Iron
d)
Iron and Magnesium
3.
What are the two types of crust?
a)
Continental and Landforms
b)
Oceanic and Mountains
c)
Mountains and Landforms
d)
Oceanic and Continental
4.
What is the hottest layer?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Core
5.
Which compositional layer is represented by the yellow layer?
a)
inner core
b)
outer core
c)
mantle
d)
crust
6.
What is the correct order of Earth's layer starting from the surface?
a)
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
b)
outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
c)
crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
d)
mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
7.
What happens to temperature as you move down through the layers?
a)
it remains the same
b)
it increases then decreases
c)
it increases
d)
it decreases
8.
The mantle "flows" because of large differences in temperature from the bottom to the top, which create convection currents.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
Pressure ______________________ as you go deeper into the Earth
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
goes up or down depending on the layer
d)
stays the same
10.
Which layer of Earth is characterized by rock that is plastic, or soft enough to flow?
a)
asthenosphere
b)
crust
c)
lithosphere
d)
inner core
11.
Which sublayer is made up of the crust and upper mantle?
a)
Inner Core
b)
Outer Core
c)
Lithosphere
d)
Asthenosphere
12.
What is it called when two oceanic plates move apart and new crust is formed?
a)
crustal integrating
b)
sea-floor spreading
13.
What do plates float on?
a)
corona
b)
upper mantle
c)
asthenospere
14.
What is the name of the supercontinent that formed from about 200-100 million years ago?
a)
Pangaea
b)
Laurasia
15.
Who first proposed the theory of continental drift'?
a)
Galileo
b)
Wegener
c)
Hess
16.
What is an underwater mountain range where new ocean floor is made?
a)
subduction
b)
mid-ocean ridge
c)
deep-sea trench
17.
Which of Earth's layers convects?
a)
crust
b)
lithosphere
c)
asthenosphere
18.
A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.
a)
wedge
b)
plate
c)
chunk
d)
fault
19.
_________ are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.
a)
Seismic Waves
b)
Rumbles
c)
Plate Tectonics
d)
Convection Currents
20.
The movement of fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another is _____________.
a)
Convection current
b)
Seismic waves
c)
Sea-floor spreading
d)
Conduction current
21.
What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?
a)
Subduction
b)
Induction
c)
Abduction
d)
Reduction
22.
_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Transform boundary
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
Insurgent boundary
23.
_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Allegiant boundary
c)
Transform boundary
d)
Sliding boundary
24.
A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
a)
emergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
convergent boundary
25.
A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.
a)
Fissure
b)
Rift valley
c)
Sea-floor spreading
d)
Fault
26.
___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
a)
Seismic waves
b)
Convection current
c)
Divergent boundary
d)
Plate tectonics
27.
Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?
a)
Energy from the Sun
b)
Magnetic Pole Reversal
c)
Convection currents in the mantle
d)
Faults in Mountain Ranges
28.
What type of plate boundary is this?
a)
Plate
b)
Divergent
c)
Convergent
d)
Transform
29.
Which piece of evidence did Wegener use to prove continental drift?
a)
The shape of the continents
b)
Similar fossils found on separate continents
c)
Tree fossils found in odd places
d)
All of the above
30.
What do we call an area where more then two plates interact in different ways
a)
plate boundary zones
b)
hot spots
c)
convergent boundaries
d)
subduction
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