Free Printable Warm-up: Earthquakes, Rock Deformation, and Earth's Interior

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Warm-up: Earthquakes, Rock Deformation, and Earth's Interior

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class

Date

What is a convergent boundary?

When two plates move away from each other.

When two plates move toward each other.

What is a fault?

Any bending of rock layers

A downward syncline like fold in a rock formation

A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another

Any brittle deformation of rock due to stress

The bending of rock layers because of stress in earth's crust is called this.....

Shear

Folding

Anticline

Brittle

Which is a normal fault

This type of fault occurs when the hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall

reverse fault

normal fault

thrust fault

strike-slip faults

Stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions

tension stress

compression stress

shear stress

fault stress

What makes the inner core solid?

Metals in the core are very light.

Pressure at the core is very high.

Chemicals in the core are very reactive.

Temperatures in the core are very low.

Which layer contains BOTH the upper mantle and the crust?

lithosphere

atmosphere

mesosphere

athensosphere

The speed of seismic waves _____ through materials that are MORE dense.

increase

decrease

10.

How was the formation of the Earth similar to the formation of our solar system?

The densest materials moved to the center.

The densest materials moved to the outside.

The densest materials moved to the middle layer.

The densest materials were evenly distributed.

11.

Which layers make up the mantle?

crust, inner core, outer core

mesosphere, asthenosphere, part of lithosphere

bottom part of the mantle

crust only

12.

Which layer is plastic and has the consistency of silly putty allowing movement?

asthenosphere

lithosphere

mesosphere

crust

13.

Which of the following increases as depth increases into the Earth? (choose all that apply)

time

Pressure

temperature

density

14.

How do scientists know the Earth has layers?

Drilling into the mantle

Volcanoes

Seismic waves data

ocean waves

15.

Which layer contains BOTH the upper mantle and the crust?

lithosphere

atmosphere

mesosphere

athensosphere

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Warm-up: Earthquakes, Rock Deformation, and Earth's Interior

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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