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savannah and camryn's earth science vocab. quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a record of the events and life forms in earth's history...

a)

period

b)

geologic time scale

c)

era

d)

calendar

2.

process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance

a)

radiation

b)

convection

c)

convergent

d)

conduction

3.

where 2 tectonic plates move away from each other...

a)

transform boundary

b)

convection boundary

c)

divergent boundary

d)

convergent boundary

4.

a super continent, when the 7 continents where combined...

a)

Pangaea

b)

country drift

c)

continental drift

d)

continents

5.

pieces of earth's crust and uppermost mantle...

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

plate tectonics

d)

plates

6.

steep depressions in the deepest parts of the ocean...

a)

deep ocean trenches

b)

rift valley

c)

mid-ocean ridge

d)

sea floor spreading

7.

upper layer of earth's mantle, below the lithosphere...

a)

ionosphere

b)

lithosphere

c)

asthenoshpere

d)

exosphere

8.

a fracture or zone of fractures between 2 blocks of rock...

a)

faults

b)

mantle

c)

crust

d)

plate

9.

innermost geologic layer of earth...

a)

outer core

b)

inner core

c)

seismic waves

d)

convection currents

10.

remains or impressions of a prehistoric organism...

a)

mantle

b)

fossil

c)

subduction

d)

density

11.

how tightly or loosely packed something is...

a)

density

b)

pressure

c)

matter

d)

subduction

12.

outermost shell of a terrestrial planet

a)

crust

b)

mantle

c)

density

d)

faults